Old Weather Forum

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.

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.

But, I'm not a fan. I can't see Vancouver Island anywhere at all!

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! )

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

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

It must say something about a certain lack of imagination when it comes to naming things!

Some familiar names!

20 May 1570 - Abraham Ortelius published Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the "first modern atlas"

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.