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… the Eredia Map (1602) … a simple, general map in which the island of Ouro is shown as a place to and from where a sea journey was made, arriving from Ende and departing to Timor, or vice-versa … it also shows a very detailed portolan map of the possible arrival area (Luca Antara) to be found at the southeast end of a direction line from Genteng, South West Java … the island marked Luca Antara is almost as large as Java Major ... the two islands of Ouro and Antara are shown south of Java, Bima (Sumbawa), Ende (Flores) and Timor. These last four islands are roughly in proportion to one another ...

this map may be viewed at Noel Peter's Eredia