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Record #180854:
Mysterious mapmakers: exploring the impossibly accurate 16th-century maps of Antarctica and Greenland / Leslie Trager.
Title: | Mysterious mapmakers: exploring the impossibly accurate 16th-century maps of Antarctica and Greenland / Leslie Trager. |
Author(s): | Trager, Leslie. |
Date: | 2006/2007. |
In: | Explorers Journal. (2006/2007.), Vol. 84(4) (2006/2007) |
Abstract: | Compares 16th century maps of Antarctica and Greenland with present-day maps of sub-ice topography, and suggests that these areas may have been explored during warm periods which occurred 4,200-3,800 and 2,900-1,400 years ago. |
Notes: | Explorers Journal. Vol. 84(4) :36-41 (2006/2007). |
Keywords: | 528.9 -- Cartography. 528.9(091) -- History of cartography. 93"-" -- Period before birth of Christ. 93"00/03" -- First to fourth centuries A.D. 001.94 -- Unexplained phenomena. V -- History. (*2) -- Polar regions. (*38) -- Greenland. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. |
SPRI record no.: | 180854 |
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