Did Iberian navigators sight Australia long before the Dutch? Collingridge, an artist and map scholar who settled in Sydney, argues the case through the voyages to the Spice Islands, Villalobos in Papua, Mendaña and Sarmiento in the Solomons and Queirós in the New Hebrides, reading the sixteenth-century Dieppe maps of Desceliers and Desliens and the mysterious Jave-la-Grande as evidence.
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