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English: Map of Lilliput, for the 1726 edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (or, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, 1726). Lilliput is situated south of Sumatra and north of "Dimen's Land" (Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)?). Real islands in the far neigbourhood are nowadays the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) and Christmas Island (Great-Britain) and further south the pair Île Amsterdam (Amsterdam Island, Amsterdam or Nieuw-Amsterdam) and Île Saint-Paul at a distance of 85 km, which resemble the pair Blefuscu and Lilliput in the novel Gulliver's Travels.
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Source The 1726 edition of Jonathan Swift's Lemuel Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world
Author Benjamin Motte, printer, after the style of Herman Moll

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current20:25, 24 September 2016Thumbnail for version as of 20:25, 24 September 2016400 × 681 (187 KB)Cmdrjameson (talk | contribs)Compressed with pngout. Reduced by 93kB (33% decrease).
15:10, 22 September 2005Thumbnail for version as of 15:10, 22 September 2005400 × 681 (281 KB)Frank Schulenburg (talk | contribs)Hermann Moll: ''Map of Lilliput'', for the 1726 edition of Jonathan Swift's ''Lemuel Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world'' {{Creator:Herman Moll}}

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