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Hy-Brasil Atlantic phantom island
What is the provenance, dating evidence and publication history of Hy-Brasil Atlantic phantom island?
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Old maps, missing islands and the changing boundaries of the world recorded on paper.
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Research & writing
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Sandy Island Coral Sea deletion
What is the provenance, dating evidence and publication history of Sandy Island Coral Sea deletion?
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Frisland Zeno map fabrication
What is the provenance, dating evidence and publication history of Frisland Zeno map fabrication?
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Phantom Islands and Lost Lands
- Hy-Brasil Atlantic phantom island
- Sandy Island Coral Sea deletion
- Frisland Zeno map fabrication
- Thule Pytheas Arctic land
- Antillia seven-cities island
- Saint Brendan island Atlantic
- Bermeja Gulf of Mexico vanishing
- Crocker Land Arctic mirage
Ancient Cartography Anomalies
- Piri Reis coastal accuracy debate
- Oronteus Finaeus ice-free detail
- Mercator Arctic continent depiction
- Fra Mauro mappamundi oddities
- Waldseemüller 1507 Pacific coastline
- Hereford Mappa Mundi creatures
- De Virga world map provenance
- Cantino planisphere Brazil accuracy
Hidden Continents and Extra Lands
- Terra Australis Incognita survival
- Zealandia eighth-continent claim
- Kerguelen Plateau lost continent
- Jan Mayen microcontinent debate
- Greater Adria subducted landmass
- Argoland missing continent search
- Mauritia Indian Ocean fragment
- Icelandia continental shelf framework
Cartographic Cover-Ups
- Mercator projection distortion motive
- Google Earth Antarctica blur zones
- Google Maps ocean-floor editing
- Military base satellite redaction
- North Pole open-water suppression
- Agartha entrance map removal
- Pacific no-fly zone mapping
- Sahara green-zone satellite filter
Sources & further reading
All source recordsLibrary of Congress — Digital Collections
Library catalogue / discovery collection
Europeana — Digital Cultural Heritage
Cultural heritage discovery collection
Gallica — Bibliothèque nationale de France
National-library digital collection
British Museum — Collection
Museum object catalogue / discovery collection
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