This is one of the few maps to depict Estotiland and Droegeo, both drawn from the narrative of the Zeno brothers, supposedly written in the 14th century, before Columbus, but actually published by the Venetian merchant and statesman Nicolo Zeno in 1561. The map covers the northern regions from the English Channel to the just south of the North Pole and from America to Russia, including England, Scandinavia, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Greenland, as well as parts of America (Estotiland), the apocryphal island of Friesland, and Mercator's speculative Arctic islands.Ĭartographically Ortelius drew from a number of interesting sources including Olaus Magnus's 1539 map of Scandinavia ( Carta marina et Descriptio Septentrionalium Terrarium) for Scandinavia and Iceland Nicolo Zeno's arctic map 1561 ( Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula) for Estotiland, Iceland, Greenland, Icaria, and Friesland Anthony Jenkinson's 1562 map of Russia to fill in the north coast of Russia, and Gerard Mercator's world maps of 15 for the high Arctic.
One of Abraham Ortelius' most interesting maps, this is his 1572 map of the Arctic, here in its rare second state.
Massachusetts - Connecticut - Rhode Island.
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