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1541 waldseemuller map of Africa
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1541 waldseemuller map of Africa

1513 map by Martin Waldseemüller “Tabula noua partis Africæ.” It ignores earlier references to a Sacaff or Saaph lake that relate it to the Nile and put it in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and shows the Mountains of the Moon (Mone Lune) as the source of the Nile.

Date
1541
Place
Africa
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,746 × 1,353 pixels

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Reason: public domain: scan (PD-old-100).

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