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The Island of California
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uplo...4/Goos1666.jpg
This is from when people thought California was an island. More here: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/maps-california-island/ |
The other 1/4 of the american population want it this way, lol
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The next big quake will make that map more accurate.
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1708 Map (just over 300 years ago):
https://stacks.stanford.edu/image/yn...001_medium.jpg Japanese map circa 1791 (based upon Dutch maps): https://stacks.stanford.edu/image/rm...0001_small.jpg Quote:
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I assume that what they think is 'California Island' is Baja, Mexico?..
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Looks like the western US must have been flooded. I don't think you can attribute this to a map making mistake. If they want so far as to draw islands then there must have been a body of water there.
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Then other cartographers copied said map, even after later expeditions cast doubt on the island theory. It should be noted that until modern times, map-making was a very very inexact science, and you had all sorts of mythical and/or extrapolated places filling in blanks that the explorers never set foot in. Cool post though. |
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It wasn't until the 19th century that Terra Cognita (Parts Unknown), disappeared from maps, since much of the coastlines of the earth had been explored by that point. Apparently there is still some work to be done... http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/up...phone-meme.jpg :stoned ADG |
There should have been water there.. Nobody would have drawn island is no water. And probably not a river as they knew what rivers were.
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