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1544 Battista Agnese Worldmap
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1544 Battista Agnese Worldmap

Worldmap from the Portolan Atlas Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St. Vaast. The map shows the world as it was known, the route that Magellan took around the world, and the route from Cadiz, Spain, to Peru, with overland portage across the Isthmus of Panama. This was the route of the treasure ships that carried vast amounts of silver from Peru to Spain.

Date
1544
Place
the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
3,585 × 2,450 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"1544 Battista Agnese Worldmap" (1544). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1544_Battista_Agnese_Worldmap.jpg

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