Hi all.

I've got that mapping bug back again after realizing that I have won an Atlas Award (A huge thanks by the way!).
Just had to scratch the itch, so I did a quick reproduction of the first ever map of my home country, New Zealand.

For those who don't know, New Zealand wasn't discovered by the western world until the December 13th, 1642. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman on an expedition around the south coast of Australia and further east first sighted New Zealand somewhere just south of what is now Hokitika. He mistakenly took the landmass as the presumed great southern continent and named it Staeten Landt, which I assume means Southern Land? Regardless his map was, for over 130 years, the most accurate depiction of this 'southern land' until the expedition of Capt. James Cook in 1770.

I've included both the original (right) and reproduction (left) versions here, trying to keep mostly to the feel of the original.

Feel free to comment or critique.
Cheers

Staeten Landt.jpgStaeten Landt original.jpg