Tag: Location: South America
Tabula Magellanica qua Tierrae del Fuego : cum celeberrimis fretis a F. Magellano et I. Le Maire.
Pictorial map of the American continent

Title: Pictorial map of the American continent : featuring the Pan American Highway and showing some of the natural resources, scenic wonders, and points of interest
Contributor: General Drafting Company, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Call Number: SMITH IV-10
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Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali, cum Terris adiacentibus
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America: Noviter Delineata
There are various insets. Uh, one depicting the top of the world, the Arctic region. And one depicting the bottom of the world, the Antarctic, uh, region.
If, uh, if one looks through the map at various points where there may be a blank spot, the mapmaker has chosen to fill them in with some interesting animal life or other activity that characterized that part of the world. Uh, obviously, by this date, not too much was known by the interior either of South America or North America, and when one looks up to the North American portion of the map, there is a great deal of blank space, a great deal of geography yet to be discovered.
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Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan
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America
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Carte réduite du détroit de Magellan
The- The map is also fun for its reference to “Terre De Feu,” better known as the “Tierra Del Fuego,” where, at least, there were outcrops of- of fire, whether it was native-created or maybe, uh, secretions of flammable substance. The long-and-short of it is that the sailors thought- the early sailors thought that they saw fire on the island, and that became the way in which it was named: the “Land of Fire” – Tierra Del Fuego.
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La Florida / Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus / Guastecan
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