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The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". The name America is placed on South America on the main map.
Puckapunyal's box-ironbark forest is an important site for swift parrots The entire PMA, along with two small reserves and an army munitions storage site at nearby Mangalore , has been identified by BirdLife International as a 435 km 2 Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports the largest known population of bush stone-curlews in Victoria.
The Royal Australian Armoured Corps Memorial and Army Tank Museum is located at Puckapunyal, an Australian Army training facility and base 10 km west of Seymour, in central Victoria, south-eastern Australia. The base is the home of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps. The museum closed in December 2022 for redevelopment, but is expected to re ...
Tobruk Barracks, Puckapunyal – Puckapunyal Military Area; Hopkins Barracks, Puckapunyal – Puckapunyal Military Area; Bridges Barracks, Puckapunyal – Puckapunyal Military Area; Simpson Barracks, Watsonia – Melbourne; Maygar Barracks, Broadmeadows – Melbourne; Oakleigh Barracks, Oakleigh South – Melbourne
The map encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California". [1]
Its headquarters is located at Bridges Barracks, at Puckapunyal, [2] near Seymour, Victoria, approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the north of Melbourne. [ 3 ] The centre was established in 1998–1999, in the mould of the Army Logistic Training Centre , to group the individual schools of the Army's combat corps – armour , artillery ...
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Central America. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.