Re: Alaska on 'Ancient' maps

From: Inger E Johansson (inger_e.johansson_at_notelia.com)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:17:33 GMT

Doug McDonald,
your University Library can contact Helsinki University's Library they have
at least up to now had a CD with fantastic pix quality where this and even
more intriguing older maps owned by Ortelius is on.

Inger E
"Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu> skrev i meddelandet
news:cbmmqb$t76$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
> Drew Nicholson wrote:
> >>Or way not take a closer look at Ortelius maps in
> >>Theatrum orbis terrarum. edited 1570.....
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?action=browse&collId=gnrlmap&fileName=g
md3m/g3200m/g3200m/gct00003/ct_browse.db&recNum=0&title2=Theatrvm%20orbis%20
terrarvm.%20-%20introduction,%20page%204&displayType=3&maxCols=3&itemLink=r?
ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3200m+gct00003))&LinkText=Back+to+Bibliograph
ic+Information
> >
> >
> > here's that URL, Tiney'd
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/3f27s
> >
> > Honestly, none of the maps I see are clear enough to tell whether or not
> > they really have alaska in them or not.
>
>
>
> Oh poppy***. Some of those are plenty good enough to show
> Alaska and some show eastern Siberia too, though unfortunately
> the one that shows Siberia best has the Mongols stuffed up far
> too north and east.
>
> I think that Alaska was EXPLORED, not discovered, in the
> mid 18th century.
>
> Doug McDonald
>
>