I am reasonably sure you will have found this map but just in case.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... ledMap.jpg
Turn it 180 degrees and it looks similar to a current map - Aus, Antarcica and the Americas.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Mauro_map
The Fra Mauro world map is unusual, but typical of Fra Mauro's portolan charts, in that its orientation is with the south at the top. One explanation for why the map places south at the top is that 15th-century compasses were south-pointing. In addition, south at the top was used in Arab maps of the time. In contrast, most European mappae mundi from the era placed east at the top, since east was the direction of the biblical Garden of Eden.
The Fra Mauro world map is unusual, but typical of Fra Mauro's portolan charts, in that its orientation is with the south at the top. One explanation for why the map places south at the top is that 15th-century compasses were south-pointing. In addition, south at the top was used in Arab maps of the time. In contrast, most European mappae mundi from the era placed east at the top, since east was the direction of the biblical Garden of Eden.
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The Fra' Mauro map is just awesome... incidentally i've read about it just a couple of weeks ago. I've recently bought and started reading "The Atlas of Atlases" by Philip Parker, and of course that map couldn't be missing... it's one of the most beautiful that have survived from that period 
The book is just awesome, absolutely recommended (and it has maps with Vancouver Island as well!
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The book is just awesome, absolutely recommended (and it has maps with Vancouver Island as well!
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I've just answered in the Alaskan discussion thread regarding one of the various Seal Rock, and realized i really was curious to check again the same-name places we have in the database... here's the current score for all places for which we have more than 5 references.
I know, our absolute favorite (the Priest Rock) is sadly not in there, we have just 3 of them
I know, our absolute favorite (the Priest Rock) is sadly not in there, we have just 3 of them
| North Point | 20 |
| West Point | 17 |
| Rocky Point | 16 |
| Round Island | 15 |
| Green Island | 15 |
| East Point | 15 |
| Black Rock | 13 |
| Egg Island | 12 |
| North Head | 11 |
| East Cape | 11 |
| White Rock | 11 |
| Black Point | 11 |
| Bird Island | 10 |
| North Cape | 10 |
| Low Point | 10 |
| Seal Rock | 10 |
| Middle Point | 10 |
| South Island | 9 |
| Gull Island | 9 |
| Pinnacle Rock | 9 |
| Seal Rocks | 9 |
| Sandy Point | 9 |
| South Point | 9 |
| The Narrows | 8 |
| Bluff Point | 8 |
| Sail Rock | 8 |
| Cone Island | 8 |
| Reef Point | 7 |
| Race Point | 7 |
| Entrance Island | 7 |
| O Shima | 7 |
| Double Island | 7 |
| Village Point | 7 |
| Sugarloaf Island | 6 |
| High Island | 6 |
| Sea Lion Rock | 6 |
| Bird Rock | 6 |
| South Channel | 6 |
| Northwest Point | 6 |
| North Island | 6 |
| Tolstoi Point | 6 |
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I had this awesome map, in the form of a puzzle, hung on a wall in front of my bed at my parents home from the 90s to the 2010s 
I've always found fascinating how in 1570 they had already figured out so (relatively) well the whole world, and how there's some kind of hint to the Australia shape (which will be "discovered" 30 years later, in 1606) below the Indonesian archipelago.
I've always found fascinating how in 1570 they had already figured out so (relatively) well the whole world, and how there's some kind of hint to the Australia shape (which will be "discovered" 30 years later, in 1606) below the Indonesian archipelago.