Created by cartographer Joan Blaeu, the chart is based partly on an exploratory voyage by the Dutch East India Company and also on Abel Tasman’s sightings in 1642.
Believed to have been mostly used as a wall decoration in a grand home or palace, the map was found in a storage unit in Sweden in 2010 and offered for sale in Stockholm for about $10,000.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 