Australia Mk2 Timeline

Overview


Australia Mk2 is a short TL based on the concept that Australia and La Jave la Grande, (“The great island of Java”) being one and the same. If the Dieppe maps were right...

Time line-

 * 1) 1526-27: Portuguese explorer Jorge de Meneses sees the western tip of New Guinea and named it ilhas dos Papuas.


 * 1) 1530
 * 2) 1544: Java Minor was identified as the present Island of Java, by the Franco-Portuguese navigator and cosmographer, Jean Alfonse.
 * 3) 1542: Jean Rotz’s maps depict Lande of Java.
 * 4) 1545: Spain's Yñigo Ortiz de Retez sailed along the north coast of New Guinea as far as the Mamberamo River near which he landed, naming the island 'Nueva Guinea'.
 * 5) 1546: Pierre Desceliers mappemonde depicts Lande of Java.
 * 6) 1548: Jave La Grande apears in the 1548 Dieppe Maps.
 * 7) 1606: The Dutch began to chart its coast od Australia.
 * 8) 1642: New Zealand is first seen by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman.
 * 9) James Cook charted its east coast.
 * 10) 1814: .Matthew Flinders published the book A Voyage to Terra Australis.
 * 11) 1820: Antarctica was finally sighted in the hypothetical area of Terra Australis.
 * 1) 1820: Antarctica was finally sighted in the hypothetical area of Terra Australis.

Also see

 * Nova Lisboa (Australia Mk2)
 * Australia (Australia Mk2)
 * Neiu Nederlands (Australia Mk2)