Geographical facts intertwine with centuries-old myths in Mercator’s 1595 map of the Arctic. Despite its fantastical elements, it also represented a significant advancement for its era.
The Map Myths Blog Posts
Two hundred years ago, an American captain reported phantom islands and coastlines that confused maps for decades. Did he even possibly fake his own death?
Buried within an ancient Chinese text lies the tale of an epic voyage in the 5th century AD. Was a Buddhist missionary really the first to put America on the map?
Successive expeditions to uncharted areas of northeast Greenland tragically led to the deaths of one group of Danes, and another pair of explorers left abandoned and presumed dead.
While names such as Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton are synonymous with Antarctic exploration, relatively little is known about the French geographer who first theorised on the icy nature of this…
As a notorious privateer, Martin Frobisher had spent much of his early life plundering French and Spanish ships, even spending time in jail for his exploits. Yet he held a…