Medieval polar atlas depicts mysterious Arctic islands
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This polar chart was first published in 1589 by Gerard Mercator. Mercator claimed that 4 land masses encircled the North Pole, 4 rivers dived the land masses, and at the center was an oceanic vortex which cycled water back to all the world rivers. This was reported by many other explorers, but decades later no trace could be found. Could this have been the folklorish Kingdom of Frisland?
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jubal
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Fascinating, simply fascinating.
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SDLN
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Maybe it's Atlantis. Or the mothership that delivered life to Earth. Or maybe, just maybe, the product of flawed cartography.
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regjoeschmo
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Knowledge lost through the ages, or is this as if they were calling the world flat..... We will see soon enough as the ice caps melt.
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This old globe shows a land mass at the North Pole, connecting Asia and the Americas.
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...and South America to Antarctica.
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Cornelius de Jode's atlas of 1593 shows one of the islands connecting to Asia.
Were these explorers and map-makers mistaken or could these islands have disappeared like Altantis? - 3 years ago
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Another version of Mercator's Atlas, courtesy of ourhollowearth.com
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