Editing Abel Tasman (section)

==Tasman map==
[[File:Tasman Map SLNSWSLNSW FL19288478.jpg|thumb|'Bonaparte Tasman map,' includes inset with Mauritius, Indonesia and Sumatra, c. 1644]]
[[File:State Library of New South Wales000.jpg|thumb|[[State Library of New South Wales]] vestibule, showing a mosaic of the Tasman map inlaid in the floor]]

Held within the collection of the [[State Library of New South Wales]] is the Tasman map,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2058092~S2|title=MAP {{!}} Carten dese landen Zin ontdeckt bij de compangie ontdeckers behaluen het norder deelt van noua guina ende het West Eynde van Java dit Warck aldus bij mallecanderen geuoecht ut verscheijden schriften als mede ut eijgen beuinding bij abel Jansen Tasman. Ano 1644 dat door order van de E.d.hr. gouuerneur general Anthonio van diemens <nowiki>[cartographic material]</nowiki> : <nowiki>[Bonaparte Tasman map]</nowiki>|website=[[State Library of New South Wales]]|access-date=28 April 2022}}
Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?–1659. : 1644.|</ref> thought to have been drawn by Isaac Gilsemans, or completed under the supervision of Franz Jacobszoon Visscher.<ref name="THE TASMAN MAP">{{cite journal| title = The tasman map | journal=Discover Collections | publisher = State Library of New South Wales | date = 2012 | url = http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/tasman-map}}</ref> The map is also known as the Bonaparte map, as it was once owned by [[Roland Bonaparte|Prince Roland Bonaparte]], the great-nephew of [[Napoleon]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Hooker|first=Brian N.|date=November 2015|title=New Light on the Origin of the Tasman-Bonaparte Map|url=http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=596240577706873;res=IELHSS|journal=The Globe|issue=78|access-date=8 August 2016|via=Informit|archive-date=4 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704004750/https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/INFORMIT.596240577706873|url-status=live}}</ref> The map was completed sometime after 1644 and is based on the original charts drawn during Tasman's first and second voyages.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Mapping our world : Terra Incognita to Australia | chapter=Tasman's Legacy |last=Patton |first=Maggie |year=2014 |isbn=9780642278098 |editor-last=Pool |editor-first=David |location=Canberra |pages=140–142}}</ref> As none of the journals or logs composed during Tasman's second voyage have survived, the Bonaparte map remains an important contemporary artefact of Tasman's voyage to the northern coast of the Australian continent.<ref name=":0" />

The Tasman map reveals the extent of understanding the Dutch had of the Australian continent at the time.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Historical Geography of New South Wales to 1901|last=Jeans|first=D.N.|publisher=Reed Education|year=1972|isbn=0589091174|page=24}}</ref> The map includes the western and southern coasts of Australia, accidentally encountered by Dutch voyagers as they journeyed by way of the Cape of Good Hope to the [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] headquarters in [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]].<ref name=":2" /> In addition, the map shows the tracks of Tasman's two voyages.<ref name=":2" /> Of his second voyage, the map shows the [[Banda Islands]], the southern coast of [[New Guinea]] and much of the northern coast of Australia. However, the land areas adjacent to the Torres Strait are shown unexamined; this is despite Tasman having been given orders by VOC Council at Batavia to explore the possibility of a channel between New Guinea and the Australian continent.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />

There is debate as to the origin of the map.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|title=The Merchant of the Zeehaen: Isaac Gilsemans and the voyages of Abel Tasman|last=Anderson|first=G|publisher=Te Papa Press|year=2001|isbn=0909010757|location=Wellington|pages=155–158}}</ref> It is widely believed that the map was produced in Batavia; however, it has also been argued that the map was produced in Amsterdam.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" /> The authorship of the map has also been debated: while the map is commonly attributed to Tasman, it is now thought to have been the result of a collaboration, probably involving Franchoijs Visscher and [[Isaack Gilsemans]], who took part in both of Tasman's voyages.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /> Whether the map was produced in 1644 is also subject to debate, as a VOC company report in December 1644 suggested that at that time no maps showing Tasman's voyages were yet complete.<ref name=":4" />

In 1943, a mosaic version of the map, composed of coloured brass and marble, was inlaid into the vestibule floor of the [[State Library of New South Wales|Mitchell Library]] in Sydney.<ref>{{Cite web
|date=2016-01-28
|title=Tasman Map in the Mitchell Vestibule
|url=https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/tasman-map-mitchell-vestibule
|access-date=2023-02-07
|website=State Library of NSW}}</ref> The work was commissioned by the Principal&nbsp;Librarian [[William Herbert Ifould|William Ifould]], and completed by the Melocco Brothers<ref name=ADB_GM>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=melocco-galliano-13274|title=Galliano Melocco (1897–1971)|first=Catherine|last=Kevin|year=2005|access-date=9 August 2016|archive-date=19 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819175442/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/melocco-galliano-13274/text23687|url-status=live}}</ref> of Annandale, who also worked on the [[ANZAC War Memorial]] in Hyde Park and the crypt at [[St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney]].<ref name=ADB_GM/><ref name="THE TASMAN MAP"/>