GEOG 2RC3 Lecture : Cartographic History of Canada
7 Jun 2014
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One of the very first maps that shows what becomes part of north america vinland is the place on the east coast where the vikings visited in approximately 1000 ad. But the map was drawn 400 years later. The map was discovered and sold to yale university in the. It has been said that even if it is a fake, the controversy it has triggered makes it worth just as much money as if it was real. Complete with viking sod huts similar to those found in norway. To read the southern hemisphere you would need to walk to the other side of the table because the text was flipped. Mapped most of the north-eastern part of the country and did so very accurately. His very first map of this area was in approximately 1616. Cartographers of this time did not like big, open spaces on their maps and so they filled them with images and figures.
