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  1572 (undated)         1 : 40000000 Description This is Abraham Ortelius map of the Western Hemisphere, considered to be the first map of the Americas to appear in a modern atlas (Schwartz). Ortelius success and the spread of his atlas made this fine map the standard - and best - representation of the Americas during the initial period its colonization. On The MapGiven how recently the Western Hemisphere had come to the attention of European scholars, the outline of the continent is remarkably accurate and recognizable. The American Northeast is dominated by Nova Francia and the St. Lawrence, showing evidence from Cartier s voyages. The Caribbean and eastern South America are shown with remarkable accuracy. Beyond the Strait of Magellan Tierra del Fuego appears not as an island but as part of a massive southern continent, the apocryphal Terre Australis, extending all the way to New Guinea. The Pacific Ocean itself appears optimistically far narrower than its actu

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