Four added medallions contain classical quotations, and the decorative clouds of the earlier edition have been replaced by a strapwork border housing the cartouches.
This updated version includes some general improvements to the geography of the globe, notably some small but significant changes to the waters near Australia, including the moving of New Guinea further away from the landmass of the southern land (tentatively suggesting the existence of a channel to the south of the island) the newly-discovered Solomon islands are shown for the first time, correctly placed to the east of New Guinea. First published in 1570, this revision is from a slightly later Latin edition, dated on the engraving 1587 but actually published around 1592 as part of Ortelius' great atlas project, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. One of the more remarkable aspects of the map is how fully it investigates the southern hemisphere, mixing old speculations with the latest reports from Spanish and Portuguese voyagers in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The great cartographer Ortelius' major world map, of great significance for the imagining of the Pacific and the Great Southern Land.
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