YUP! I was able to look at the book I was reading(haven’t finished its a bit try but neat) ‘The Reef’ By Iain McCalman which has a section about Captain James Cook and the voyage of the HMS Endeavour. It counts for them mapping the northeastern edge of Australia through the channel between the coast and the Great Barrier Reef. Captain Cook and his creek weren’t the greatest of people but its interesting hearing about their journey.
The HMS Endeavour voyage route using present maps
Oh the voyage I am talking about was before the map you have. The Voyage was from 1768-1771 so was probably the bases for that Ottoman map. They are roughly the same. I thought I remember it being closer to the true map. I was mistaken and its an older map. xD
But yes its interesting to see stuff like this to see these tools being used to slowly refine maps.
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