Northern Hemisphere.

A rare and important 1818 map of the Northern Hemisphere by John Pinkerton. On a Polar projection, this map depicts North America, Asia, the East Indies, and North Africa. In North America, thanks primarily to the work of Cook in the Pacific Northwest, the coasts are rendered with considerable accuracy. The interior of North America, particularly the American West, is still rather vague, though much of the cartography is clearly derived from the exploration of Humboldt and the Louis and Clark expedition. Notes the apocryphal River Buenaventura as well as a conjectural placement of the western extreme of the Missouri River. The United States, still quite small, does not yet include Florida, Louisiana, California or Texas. Asia is drawn with considerable accuracy thanks to Russian and Chinese cartographers, however, there remain some unexplored areas in Central Asia. Africa is well mapped along the coast, but much of the interior is speculative. Shows the mythical Mountains of Kong (supposed southern boundary of the Niger River) meeting the equally mythical Mountains of the Moon (Supposed Source of the White Nile). Pinkerton positions the Mountains of the Moon much farther north than

Date

1818

Place

the Arctic

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

5,000 × 3,359 pixels

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