Recent Posts Tagged With 'antarctica'

• Senator Allen Quist, Finaeus, Terra Australis in Global Climate Change

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 13:34 in climate change, antarctica, Current Events, terra australis, rare & antique maps, great southern continent, allen quist, speculative cartography

  Post from: Geographicus Rare & Antique Map Blog by Kevin Brown.Geographicus Rare & Antique MapsSenator Allen Quist, Finaeus, Terra Australis in Global Climate Change...

• Senator Allen Quist, Finaeus, Terra Australis in Global Climate Change

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 13:34 in climate change, antarctica, Current Events, terra australis, great southern continent, allen quist, speculative cartography, rare & antique maps

  1531 Finaeus Map of the WorldWe found it appalling, deeply disturbing, and extremely amusing to discover that GOP senator and two time Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Allen Quist has cited the Oronce Finé map of 1531 as proof that global warming i...

• Terra Australis, Terre de Quir, and the Great Southern Continent

  Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 13:05 in world, antarctica, south pacific, vanuatu, james cook, quiros, terra australis, mysterious destinations, lost cities of gold, apocryphal places, bouvet, great southern continent

  1691 Map of World by N. Sanson showing Southern ContinentOne common feature of 15th to 18th century maps of the world and particularly of the South Pacific, is the land known as Terra Australis, the Southern Continent, or Magellanica. The great sout...

• Terra Australia, Terre de Quir, and the Great Southern Continent

  Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 13:05 in world, antarctica, south pacific, vanuatu, james cook, quiros, terra australis, rare & antique maps, mysterious destinations, lost cities of gold, apocryphal places, bouvet

  ne common feature of 15th to 18th century maps of the world and particularly of the South Pacific, is the land known as Terra Australis, the Southern Continent, or Magellanica. The great southern continent was supposed to cover much of the Southern ...