WHO DISCOVERED AUSTRALIA?

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13279, 19 January 1911, Page 5

WHO DISCOVERED AUSTRALIA?

AMERIGO VESPUCCI’S CLAIMS. Evidence In Support. k Press Association .—Telegraph.—Copyright, Eeceived January 19, 9.55 a.m, SYDNEY, January 19 • Mr E. Petherick, of the Fcdetal Government Library, . claims to have secured proof,'after 40 years’ researches, that Australia was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci in 1499. The proof repts on the result of a find made by a University professor at Caracoiy, Poland. 'This discovery is in the shape of a little globe of date 1510, forming the ornamentation of a clock, which had’ been hidden for 400 years. The globe shows the outline of land south of India. Professor Entroichcr, the discoverer of the globe, has published a long paper in support of Vuspufcoi’s discovery, and Mr Petheriok’s documentary and other evidence supports, tfiis claim as a step towards the solution of, if it does not fully solve, perhaps, the greatest enigma of modern geographical discovery.