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Reference 12042
Old colored sea chart of the North Pole by J. Janssonius. With Greenland and Canada, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Norway and the north coast of Russia. The map shows, the famous Northwest Passage, a connection between the Atlantic and the Pacific in the north of North America, does not exist.
Philip D. Burden in The Mapping of North America about this map:
This map first appeared in the Latin Appendix of 1637 alongside the one it would eventually replace... Loosly based in format on his own Atlas minor plate of 1628, cartographically it draws upon the Hondius, 1636. It did, however, end up being the prototype of many later maps such as Willem Blaeu, c. 1638, and Moses Pitt, 1680.
The unknown north-west coast is conveniently hidden behind a decorative title cartouche. Two foxes, two hunters and a polar bear grace a second cartouche bearing the imprint. One unusual feature of this map is the attempt to show rhumb lines on a polar map...
Cartographer | Johannes Janssonius |
Title | Nova et Accurata Poli Arctici et terrarum Circum Iacentium Descriptio |
Publisher, Year | Janssonius Heirs, Amsterdam, 1666 |
Plate Size | 41.2 x 52.6 cm (16.2 x 20.7 inches) |
Sheet Size | 51.8 x 59.4 cm (20.4 x 23.4 inches) |
Reference | Burden, P.D.: The Mapping of North America No. 250 third state; Van der Krogt, P.: Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 0020:1C |
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North - South Pole - Janssonius, Johannes - Nova et Accurata Poli Arctici et terrarum...