believes it does not represent Australia discovered by unknown Portuguese voyagers. In a subsequent article, he argues that the Dieppe mapmakers identified Java Major (Jave la Grande) or, in the case of Guillaume Brouscon Locach (Terre de lucac), with Oronce Fine's Regio Patalis. In 2010, King received the Australasian Hydrographic Society's Literary Achievement Award for 2010 in recognition of his work on the origins of the Dieppe Maps. Academic debate about the Dieppe maps continues into the twenty-first century. In 2019, Professor Brian Lees and Associate Professor Shawn Laffan presented a paper arguing the Jean Rotz 1542 world map is a good "first approximation" of the Australian continent. In a recent article on the ysles de magna and saill on the Harleian world map of , King argued that they were the Unfortunate Isles discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1522, re-named with a corrupted version of part of his name and displaced to the vicinity of Jave la Grande. He observed that the wandering of Magellan’s islands on the sixteenth century maps illustrated how cartographers of that time could place the same island or lands, under variant or different names, in more than one location on their maps and globes, in accordance with the fragmentary and sometimes contradictory information available to them, and that the appearance of the islands on the Dieppe Maps, as with Jave la Grande on those maps, had confounded those who had looked at them without understanding their context in the cartography of their time. See also History of Australia Timeline of Australian history Marchinbar Island, location of an early deposit of coins in Australia Makassan contact with Australia Baijini, a legendary people interpreted by some researchers as pre-Macassan visitors to Arnhem Land Notes References External links Academic and library links Desceliers map (1550) at the British Library Flinders University Portal – Links to published and online works by Professor W.A.R. Richardson Government of Goa Archives.(The Archive includes Portuguese documents dating to 1498) Images of the Vallard atlas (1547) at the Huntington Library Pearson, M. Great Southern Land; The Maritime Exploration of Terra Australis Australian Government Department of Environment and Heritage, 2005. at Desliens map (1566) reproduction at the National Library of Australia Asia in the Eyes of Europe, by Donald F.Lach. University of Chicago Library, 1991 The National Library of Australia's Gateway site on exploration of Australia King, «JAVE LA GRANDE, A PART OF TERRA