Geography Geek | Why the North Pole looked like this on Old Maps @GeographyGeek | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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 - raremaps.com/gallery/detail/92479/first-state-septentrionalium-terrarum-descriptio-mercator
1590 Petrus Plancius World Map - raremaps.com/gallery/detail/75350/orbis-terrarum-typus-de-integro-multis-in-locis-emendatus-au-plancius-van-deutecum
1570 Ortelius First World Atlas - raremaps.com/gallery/detail/94771/theatrum-orbis-terrarum-1570a-first-edition-first-issue-ortelius

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