Generalcharte von Australien nach dem Entwurfe des K.Joseph Marx Freiherrn v. Lichtenstein. . .

The map features the islands of the Pacific and Australia which is named "Neu Holland vormals Ulimaroa" on its western half and in the eastern half "Neu Süd Wales oder die englische Stadthalterschaft Sydney Cove". Australia is shown with a partial coastline, with Tasmania separated from mainland Australia by Bass Strait. The map also features Kängurus I. (Kangaroo Island) and Geographen Bay (Geographe Bay).

In 1805 it was thought that the Australian continent may be divided by an internal sea so that the east coast was separated from the rest of the continent.

Only a few years before in 1798 Flinders and Bass had proved that there was a strait dividing Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) from the rest of the continent. On Swoboda’s map a line has been drawn from the bottom of Carpentaria to the eastern part of present day Victoria. This line represented two things, the potential shape of the eastern landmass split by the sea and the extent to English territory in the newly settled colonies, only 17 years old.

The Southern Coastline is not shown as even though Flinders had by 1803 mapped the entire region he was in 1805 still under house arrest on the islands of Mauritius by the French, he would not publish his discoveries until 1814.