Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Insulae Palaos seu Novae Philippinae , alias Archipelagus S. Lazari vel Carolinae.

Barcode: 58975

Publishing Location: Augsburg

Brief Description: Map of Palaos islands [i.e. Palau Islands] also known as the Novae Philippinae (as they were situated directly east of the Philippines) and the westernmost point of the S. Lazari [i.e. St. Lazarus] Archipelago [i.e. now referred to as the Caroline Islands]. The map features the seatrack of the San Trinidad led by Francisco Padilla. In 1710 the Spanish explorer Don Francisco Padilla with three Jesuit missionaries aboard the Santissima Trinidad set out from Manilla to search for the Palaos Islands, notoriously hard for the Spanish to find because the islands are so small. The map shows on Nov. 30 he reached Sonsorol [i.e. Sonsorol Islands] to the south of Palau. By Dec. 10th, 1710 they reach a southern island in the Palau group but were unable to land. He returned to the Philippines in Jan. 1711. The map, however, is not according to scale, the islands are disproportionate in size, shape and distance and far more numereous (the map title estimates 87 islands) when in fact there are far less in the Caroline Islands, which Padilla did not explore.

Printmaker: Padilla, FranciscoStocklein, Joseph

Date/Date Range Published: 1726

Language: Latin

Region Depicted: Palau Islands

Map Type: GeographicalHistorical maps

Dimensions: 1 map : color ; neatline 21.5 x 34.5 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm

Historical Context: Exploration of Palau and surrounding islands in the southwestern Pacific is shown on the map depicting European and native Palauan cartography of an early presentation of the islands through the Jesuit explorers and then through Joseph Stocklein to Europe.

LC Call Number: G9427.F33 1726 P3

OCLC: 224543746

Donor: Bresler

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