1590 map of Belgium

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1590 map of France

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1590 map of the Black Sea and surrounding region

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1590 map of North Africa

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1587 map of the Americas, Pacific - by Abraham Ortelius

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• redd.it/epbjs4

“Very nice map.

“The passage at the bottom of South America is in fact the Strait of Magellan, (Latin: fretum magellanicum). South of it is Terra del Fuego (Spanish: Land of Fire). Cape Horn was not discovered until 1616 proving that Terra del Fuego was not the northern part of what would later be named Antarctica”–doitstuart

1570 Ortelius map showing the north Pacific

• redd.it/emq3w8

“Even back then if you had japan on a map there would’ve been kaijus battling shit in the ocean”–N3onknight

1585 illustrated map of Roanoke Island of the coast of North Carolina (before the establishment of the “Lost Colony”)

• redd.it/ebnjwe

1585 map of Iceland - by Abraham Ortelius

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• The Nahval. If anyone eats of this fish, they will die immediately
• The toothless Roider - The flesh of it is very good meat, wholesome and tasty
• The Burchvalur. Chess pieces are made of its teeth
• The Hyena or sea hog
• Ziphius, a horrible sea monster that swallows a black seal in one bite
• The English whale, thirty ells long
• The horse like Hroshualur. This creature often causes great hurt and scare to fishermen
• The largest kind of Whale. More like a small island than like a fish

1582 map of Switzerland - by Christoph Murer

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1570 map of Egypt - by Abraham Ortelius

• redd.it/devn69

“dat nile delta”–VarysIsAMermaid69

1570 map of northern Europe - by Abraham Ortelius

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1570 map of the world - by Abraham Ortelius

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1570 map of the south, east, and southeast Asia - by Abraham Ortelius

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1569 map of the Mediterranean

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1568 map of East and West Friesland - by Abraham Ortelius

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1580 map of the Americas

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• redd.it/dbooos

“Now that’s a big New Guinea!”–adawkin

1565 map of Great BrItain and Ireland - by Egnazio Danti

1560 map of Portugal

1560 map of the Black Sea - by Francesco Ghisolfi

1559 Portolan chart of the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara by Diogo Homem

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1570 map of east and southeast Asia - by Abraham Ortelius

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• redd.it/cibdln

“I’m trying to make sense of my country (Philippines). I can’t really. 😂”–monroejaspers

1529 Map of Africa - by Portuguese cartographer Diego Ribero

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• redd.it/cb6d8m

“Beautiful and surprisingly accurate”–Akkermannn

1552 map of Corsica - by Sebastian Munster

[1268 x 1994]

• redd.it/ca181b

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