The map focuses on Southern Asia and the Northern Pacific, also showing part of the west coast of North America. Part of northern Australia can be seen coloured in green at the bottom of the map. Australia had only been ‘discovered’ 16 years earlier. From Ptolemy's ''Geografia Cioe Descrittione Universale Della Terra Partita... edited by Antonio Magini Padovano. Paolo & Francesco Galignani Frateli.
