page_title: Dieppe maps
section_title: Debates over the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Dieppe maps / Debates over the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: Newspaper article of 4 February 1790
context_page_description: The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps produced in Dieppe, France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. They are large hand-produced maps, commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons, including Henry II of France and Henry VIII of England. The Dieppe school of cartographers included Pierre Desceliers, Jean Rotz, Guillaume Le Testu, Guillaume Brouscon and Nicolas Desliens.
context_section_description: Discussion of the Dieppe maps in contemporary Australia is exclusively confined to the Jave la Grande feature. In the media, the maps are sometimes mistakenly described as Portuguese.
  The first writer to put these maps forward as evidence of Portuguese discovery of Australia was Alexander Dalrymple in 1786, in a short note to his Memoir Concerning the Chagos and Adjacent Islands.  Dalrymple was intrigued enough to publish 200 copies of the Dauphin map.
  Since then a number of other writers have contributed to the debate about the "Jave La Grande" landmass that appears on the Dieppe maps. These include;
caption: Newspaper article of 4 February 1790
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