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Interesting Finds on Old Japanese Maps

1785 Continental Map



1853 Country Map


What I'm noticing in the 1785 map:
  • Australia who? I only know Magallanica, aka Terra Australis. That red square bit sticking up is New Guinea.
  • Lush green Sahara
  • Lush green northern America and Eurasia
  • Lush green Magallanica
  • The Arctic region was a frozen continent named "Land of the Night People"? This isn't the only old Japanese map that shows this...

Interesting Finds on Old Japanese Maps


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