1589 Americae novissima descriptio

Map of the Americas and Pacific to New Guinea and Japan. Prime meridian through Azores. Shows Tierra del Fuego according to Drake, naming Insulae Reginae Elizabet. (Queen Elizabeth's Islands). Includes Islands of Brasil and St Brendan in the North Atlantic.

Object Details

ID: G201:5/3
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
Creator: Clerc, J. Le; Hondius, Jodocus
Places: Western Hemisphere; World
Date made: 1602
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 48.1 cm x 34.3 cm
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