Geography Geek | Why are there Giants in South America on Old Maps? @GeographyGeek | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
“The existence of giants here is confirmed” this was written in a letter to the French Academy of Sciences in 1766 by Dr. Matthew Maty, the secretary of the British Royal Society

He was referring to the confirmation of giants at the southern end of South America by English explorer John Byron..but reports of giants in this part of the world went back more than two centuries.

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https://www.cascada.travel/blog/the-truth-about-patagonia-s-giants
https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/magellan-strait/patgonian-giants.html
dubioushistory.github.io/articles/patagonian-giants
youtube.com/watch?v=oZJeQ4-8Apk&t=6s

Book Sources
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“The Phantom Atlas” - Edward Brooke-Hitching

RareMaps.com Maps
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1752 Claes Janszoon Visscher World Map - tinyurl.com/4c2np2cp
1544 Sebastian Munster Map - tinyurl.com/48acuk27
1634 Willem Janszoon Blaeu Straits of Magellan Map - tinyurl.com/3p98kaj8