Renaissance Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Navigation and geography=== {{further|Age of Discovery}} [[File:PietroCoppo.jpg|thumb|The world map by [[Pietro Coppo]], Venice, 1520]] During the Renaissance, extending from 1450 to 1650,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Woodward |first1=David |title=The History of Cartography, Volume Three: Cartography in the European Renaissance |date=2007 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago and London |isbn=978-0226907338}}</ref> every continent was visited and mostly mapped by Europeans, except the south polar continent now known as [[Antarctica]]. This development is depicted in the large world map ''Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula'' made by the Dutch cartographer [[Joan Blaeu]] in 1648 to commemorate the [[Peace of Westphalia]]. In 1492, [[Christopher Columbus]] sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain seeking a direct route to India of the [[Delhi Sultanate]]. He accidentally stumbled upon the Americas, but believed he had reached the East Indies. In 1606, the Dutch navigator [[Willem Janszoon]] sailed from the East Indies in the [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] ship [[Duyfken]] and landed in [[Australia]]. He charted about 300 km of the west coast of [[Cape York Peninsula]] in Queensland. More than thirty Dutch expeditions followed, mapping sections of the north, west, and south coasts. In 1642β1643, [[Abel Tasman]] circumnavigated the continent, proving that it was not joined to the imagined south polar continent. By 1650, Dutch cartographers had mapped most of the coastline of the continent, which they named [[New Holland (Australia)|New Holland]], except the east coast which was charted in 1770 by [[James Cook]]. The long-imagined south polar continent was eventually sighted in 1820. Throughout the Renaissance it had been known as [[Terra Australis]], or 'Australia' for short. However, after that name was transferred to New Holland in the nineteenth century, the new name of 'Antarctica' was bestowed on the south polar continent.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cameron-Ash |first1=M. |title=Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook's Endeavour Voyage |date=2018 |publisher=Rosenberg |location=Sydney |isbn=978-0648043966 |pages=19β20}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page