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Globe x-ray Long Caption: Terrestrial table globe. It forms a pair with the celestial globe, Blaeu GLB0151. Geographical details on the sphere include loxodromes for 32 compass points. The Stait of le Marie is drawn and the hypothetical southern continent is labelled 'TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA MAGALANICA'. The track of Oliver van Noort is drawn and labelled. There are various decorative feature, such as animals in North and South America and Africa, an Indian in South America and many ships in the oceans. There are notes on discoveries in North America, in the hypothetical southern continent (below the Cape of Good Hope) and below Cape Horn. A total of nine oceans are named. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection Object: GLB0152 Artist: Willem Jansz Blaeu Date: gores produced: 1602; plates altered: after 1621 Medium: papier mache; plaster; paper; varnish; brass; wood; hand-coloured; copper plate engraved; ink Size: 385 mm x 330 mm; sphere diameter: 230 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.