1540 Compass Rose
Please don't write to tell me I'm a landlubber for not calling these things
charts...
The Dutch, not your typical landlubber, use kaart in both cases,
and I already know I'm a landlubber, anyway.
Some more recent maps of Curaçao island here.
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| Juan de la Cosa, 1500 Harvard University |
Terra Nova, Waldseemüller British Library |
America 1507, Waldseemüller which gave the continent a name |
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Compare the maps below with the route de Ojeda took, and you'll understand why he did so |
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| KLM Eastern Route Amsterdam-Indonesia 1932 |
These are parts of maps in Bos-Niermeyers Atlas der Geheele Aarde Groningen, den Haag, Batavia 1932 |
Alonso de Ojeda 1499 and KLM Snip 1934, Ludwig von Beethoven 1993 |
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| Atlantic currents | January winds | July winds |
| Steamship Curaçao | the Werbata Maps | the European discovery: | KLM Fokker F-VIIb Snip |
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Alonso de Ojeda Amerigo Vespucci |
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| record first Atlantic crossing, 1826 | century-old maps on CD-ROM | comic strip heroes | first Trans-Atlantic air service, 1934 |
how we shrunk the world
(until it became too small and crowded)
map symbols
| Vinland map | Paradise map | Piri Reis map |
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| fake Jesuit fools Hitler |
fool's paradise Forester fools Forester |
real still fools lots of people |
Funny map |
Murmansk map |
Internet map |
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| Leo Belgicus united we stand |
WW II Murmansk Convoy route |
stupid Gates fools the World |
Francis Drake map | ||
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| map and plate: con-trick and prank |
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