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10/28/2009 9:07 PM	Alert
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8328878.stm

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Isaac Fain

10/28/2009 9:11 PM	Alert
wooowwwww - man, that is beyond awesome!!! I'm a total sucker for this kind of stuff. great post!! interesting how NZ appears almost to be the same size as australia. makes me wonder how much the brits really knew when they started depositing the unwanted there. cheers -ike

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Dale Avery

10/28/2009 10:52 PM	Alert
Craig, Great catch! Thanks for posting this.

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10/29/2009 2:20 AM	Alert
Wow. Cool map. Good post Craig.

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Benny Benson

10/29/2009 9:48 AM	Alert
Whoa, whoa whoa! so you're saying the world is round? no way........

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Larry Grubbs

10/29/2009 10:34 AM	Alert
Posted By Benny Benson on 10/29/2009 9:48 AM Whoa, whoa whoa! so you're saying the world is round? no way........ No No, your clearly misreading it. That map looks perfectly flat to me.

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Danny Stevens

10/29/2009 11:11 AM	Alert
Larry use you Glasses???????? must be getting old

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Danny Stevens

10/29/2009 11:13 AM	Alert
oops wanted to say 3D glasses...... I think they make add ons for bifocals....... I can pick some up from the AARP store if you want? Don't want you to have to get out to use your walker!!!!!

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10/29/2009 12:15 PM	Alert
Posted By Isaac Fain on 10/28/2009 9:11 PM wooowwwww - man, that is beyond awesome!!! I'm a total sucker for this kind of stuff. great post!! interesting how NZ appears almost to be the same size as australia. makes me wonder how much the brits really knew when they started depositing the unwanted there. cheers -ike Me thinking those are neither but rather islands of what is now Indonesia.They didn't know either about Australia or NZ. Those were not discovered (visited by Europeans) until early 17th century Cool stuff. Talk about serious overlanding.

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Dale Avery

10/29/2009 1:41 PM	Alert
remember that by this time Marco Polo and his brother (?) had made their trip to China and back. Part of the return trip was by sea. I'm sure the Polos brought back to Europe a lot of information about the topography, coastlines, ports, etc., of the time. Still, this takes nothing away from the creators of this map. What a monumental work. Gotta love good science! Dale

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Dale Avery

10/29/2009 1:44 PM	Alert
Notice too that there is an Iceland, but no Greenland. Or perhaps what I am thinking is northern N. America is actually what they knew of as Greenland. Before the collapse of the Viking settlements in Greenland, the Catholic Church had a Bishop stationed there. Initially there was a lot of communication between Europe and those settlements.

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Tom Thomas

02/14/2010 11:41 AM	Alert
Thanks Craig, totally fascinating. I studied cartography in college and still am amazed at the spacial accuracy and geographic representation that these early explorers put together, especially considering their lack of tech as we know it. any data on the map? Haha, nevermind. I just figureed out that the bold underlined thingy is a link! Ha, silly technopolitains, what'll they think of next

Bill Domey

02/14/2010 3:27 PM	Alert
Thanks for posting that, That is awesome.

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