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Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç 'vɪlhɛlm 'lu:tvɪç 'laɪçhaːʁt]; 23 October 1813 – c. 1848), known as Ludwig Leichhardt, [1] was a German explorer and naturalist, most famous for his exploration of northern and central Australia.
In 2005, a 500-year-old map that identified the new world as “America” sold for a whopping $1 million at auction. These early maps, which are are prized for their historical significance and ...
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]
"The object of the Committee in directing you to Coopers Creek is that you should explore the country intervening between it and Ludwig Leichhardt's track south of the Gulf of Carpentaria avoiding as far as practicable Sturt's route on the west and Gregory's down the Victoria on the east….. should you determine the impracticability of this ...
Lithograph from Voyage au Pôle Sud et en Océanie by Jules Dumont d'Urville Port Essington as illustrated in Ludwig Leichhardt's account of his expedition. Port Essington is an inlet and historic site located on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory. It was the site of an early attempt ...
Map of the United States with state and territory names 1681 map of North America Antebellum map of the United States, published by Sidney E. Morse in An Atlas of the United States (1823), showing the recent acquisition of Missouri and Louisiana, and the remnant of the Northwest Territory after the establishment of Ohio, Indiana and Missouri
December 1846 – May 1847 he was second in command of Leichhardt's second expedition (Darling Downs to West Australia) in the party of nine: Leichhardt, Mann, James Perry (saddler), Heinrich Boecking (tanner and baker) [a] Henry Turnbull, Hovenden Hely, Daniel Bunce (botanist), and two Aboriginals: Harry Brown and Jemmy Wommai or Wamai.
This map is available from the United States Library of Congress's Geography & Map Division under the digital ID g3700.ar075700. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing