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One Weird Fact: Some Islands Never Existed

Hy-Brasil

For centuries, European maps showed you islands that weren’t there. Not undiscovered islands. Islands that did not exist. One of these was Hy-Brasil, said to be located in the Atlantic west of Ireland.   Maps began showing Hy-Brasil in the 14th…

The Cartography of Lost Places

You see a map and you are looking at a place – a place you can go to, visit, see and smell.  A place. But maps (and we are talking about those older nice foldable paper ones) are snapshots of…