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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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