Korea here shown as a peninsula, not an island. Interesting that the atlas contains more than one instance of things being presented two ways on different maps: California as an island is another prominent example.
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Korea here shown as a peninsula, not an island. Interesting that the atlas contains more than one instance of things being presented two ways on different maps: California as an island is another prominent example.
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Author: tomadmin
Image ID: 1952
The mapmakers couldn't figure out exactly where Compagnie Land and Staten Island should go, so they drew it into the ocean, ambiguously connected to China and Tartaria. Companie Land and Staten Island were supposed sitings, by a Dutch explorer named Vries, of land on, and the strait between, Asia and America. However, it turned out to simply be two of Kiril Islands. See Raremaps.com and wikipedia, for Vries Strait, a passage between two of the Kiril Islands named after Vries.
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The mapmakers couldn't figure out exactly where Compagnie Land and Staten Island should go, so they drew it into the ocean, ambiguously connected to China and Tartaria. Companie Land and Staten Island were supposed sitings, by a Dutch explorer named Vries, of land on, and the strait between, Asia and America. However, it turned out to simply be two of Kiril Islands. See Raremaps.com and wikipedia, for Vries Strait, a passage between two of the Kiril Islands named after Vries.
E86.115 - Magnae Tartariae, Magni Mogolis Imperii, Japoniae et Chinae
The Great Wall.
The Great Wall.
The mapmakers couldn't figure out exactly where Compagnie Land and Staten Island should go, so they drew it into the ocean, ambiguously connected to China and Tartaria. Companie Land and Staten Island were supposed sitings, by a Dutch explorer named Vries, of land on, and the strait between, Asia and America. However, it turned out to simply be two of Kiril Islands. See Raremaps.com and wikipedia, for Vries Strait, a passage between two of the Kiril Islands named after Vries.
The mapmakers couldn't figure out exactly where Compagnie Land and Staten Island should go, so they drew it into the ocean, ambiguously connected to China and Tartaria. Companie Land and Staten Island were supposed sitings, by a Dutch explorer named Vries, of land on, and the strait between, Asia and America. However, it turned out to simply be two of Kiril Islands. See Raremaps.com and wikipedia, for Vries Strait, a passage between two of the Kiril Islands named after Vries.