Geography Geek | Why was this Sea in North America on Old Maps? @GeographyGeek | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 20 minutes ago.
Here is yet another giant body of water on old maps of North America that turned out not to exist. I’ve covered a few others and they are all associated with the wish to find a quick passage to Asia but each has its own unique backstory.

RareMaps.com Sources
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Guillaume De L'Isle / Jean-Claude Dezauche 1783 - raremaps.com/gallery/detail/81091/carte-du-canada-qui-comprend-la-partie-septentrionale-des-et-de-lisle-dezauche
Philippe Buache 1780 - raremaps.com/gallery/detail/70578/planisphere-physique-ou-lon-voit-du-pole-septentrional-ce-buache
Guillaume De L'Isle / Philippe Buache 1763 - raremaps.com/gallery/detail/79737/carte-damerique-dresssee-pour-lusage-du-roy-en-1722-de-lisle-buache
Louis Jolliet 1689 - raremaps.com/gallery/detail/73650pc/tabula-exhibens-regiones-quasdam-recens-detectas-in-america-jolliet


Other Internet Sources
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oldworldauctions.com/info/article/2021-08-The-Last-Great-Cartographic-Myth
antiqueprintsblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-french-seek-route-to-western-sea.html
sea-of-the-west.info/title
biographi.ca/en/bio/fonte_bartholomew_de_1E.html
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:12324099

Book Sources
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The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching

French Translations - Kevin Mallet

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