Antarctica: Historical Maps

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  • Publisher: Zagier y Urruty
  • EAN/ISBN: 9789872302566
  • Scale: various
  • Size Folded: 13x24cm
  • Size: 65x95cm
  • Binding: Folded Map
An interesting collection of historical maps is arranged on this sheet - each representing the concept (realistic or otherwise) of the enigmatic continent of Antarctic - aka Terra Australis or Terra Incognita - at various times since the sixteenth century. The nine maps range in time from Cornelius Wyfliet’s 1598 map of Antarctica and South America and the Munster/Petri world map of the same year (informed partly by Magellan’s travels), to an 1845 map by Sduk showing several of the island groups in the south polar seas. Explanatory text in Spanish and English describes these maps and their significant aspects in the context of exploratory voyages which ventured further south and revealed more about the region and its geographic relationship with the neighbouring land masses.
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