Name: Why the North Pole looked like this on Old Maps | 影片 | 乾淨世界
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Description: Check out this map of the Arctic from the 16th century. There are four major land masses surrounding a polar sea with a massive magnetic rock in the center, cal... | 影片 | 乾淨世界

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Check out this map of the Arctic from the 16th century. There are four major land masses surrounding a polar sea with a massive magnetic rock in the center, called Rupes Nigra the Latin words for Black Rock. 

Book Sources
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“The Phantom Atlas” - Edward Brooke-Hitching
"Half Moon" - Douglas Hunter 
"A New World Voyager" - Edward Butts

RareMaps.com Sources
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1596 Geradus Mercator Arctic Map - https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/92479/first-state-septentrionalium-terrarum-descriptio-mercator
1590 Petrus Plancius World Map - https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/75350/orbis-terrarum-typus-de-integro-multis-in-locis-emendatus-au-plancius-van-deutecum
1570 Ortelius First World Atlas - https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/94771/theatrum-orbis-terrarum-1570a-first-edition-first-issue-ortelius

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