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A detailed 16th-century world map (orthographic projection) set within an ornate frame. Billowing blue and white clouds fill the four corners outside the map's oval border. At the top and bottom are large decorative strapwork cartouches with Latin text. The map displays the continents of Europe, Africa, Asia, and America (labeled "America or New India"). A massive southern continent, "Southern Land Not Yet Known," stretches across the bottom. The oceans are populated with sailing ships and sea monsters. Red lines mark the Equator and Tropics.
ANIAN
AMERICA OR NEW INDIA. first discovered in the year 1492 by Christopher Columbus in the name of the King of Castile
Tolm
Tontonteac
Cevola
Marata
Chilaga
Canagadi
Avacal
Florida
New France
Norumbega
Baccalaos
Greenland
Estotiland
Iceland
Frisland
Azores
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
ATLANTIC OCEAN
North Sea
Spain
Gaul
Germany
Italy
Greece
Anatolia
Syria
Barbary
Biledulgerid
Interior Libya
AFRICA / Agisymba
Manicongo
Ethiopia
Arabia
Persia
Tartary
Mongol
Cathay
China
East India
Caribana
Quito
Peru
Amazons
Brazil
South Sea
ETHIOPIAN OCEAN
Chile
Chica
THE PACIFIC SEA
INDIAN SEA
Java Major
Sumatra
Java Minor
Region of Parrots so named by the Portuguese because of the incredible size of those birds in that place
Some call this Southern continent the Magellanic region, after its discoverer.
SOUTHERN LAND NOT YET KNOWN
It is clear from the written travels of Marco Polo the Venetian and Ludovico de Varthema that there are vast regions here.
WHAT CAN SEEM GREAT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS TO THE PERSON WHO HAS KNOWN ALL ETERNITY AND THE MAGNITUDE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD. CICERO: