A captured Javanese chart from 1512 covered the Cape of Good Hope, Brazil, the Red Sea, Persia, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan.
A captured Javanese chart from 1512 covered the Cape of Good Hope, Brazil, the Red Sea, Persia, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan.
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