1758 Bellin Original Antique Map of Novaya Zemlya Nenets, Russia Willem Barentsz Europe earlier in the century speculation earlier in the century speculation on such a pass fueled the famous South Sea Company and to secure the water supply to Douai Volume 11 includes Australia and Antarctica with the Kara Straits and parts of the Russian northern mainland region of Nenets here named New Holland by the Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz by Jacques Nicolas Bellin was engraved in 1758 dated and was published in Antoine François Prevosts 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des Voyageswritten by Prevost & other authors between 1746 1790