Message #2699

[Morrison]

A map by Hadji Ahmed, 1550. Probably also a map compiled from different sources, since the European and African side is much less accurate than the American side. Look at the nearly correct orientations and proportions of such features as Florida, the Caribbean Islands, the Californian peninsula, etc. Other remarkable features are a connection between Siberia and Alaska, and the presence a southern continent. The latter looks like the shape one gets from Mercator projections of the existing globe, which have greatly oversized representations of the North and South Pole regions. Note that the top part of the map is a quite successfull spherical projection. The existence of a land bridge with Siberia is remarkable, because once there was one, though it was some 20,000 to 30,000 years ago.