Liliput and Sunda -- From Gulliver's Travels Lilliput is an island nation to the southwest of Sumatra and the Sunda Straits, discovered in 1699 by Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon on a merchant ship that was shipwrecked on the island. The inhabitants are...
Houyhnhnms Land and the Coast of Australia -- From Gulliver's Travels The Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels. The map shows Houyhnhnms Land to be south of...