1550 Map of World Showing All of North America to be Florida

I'd vaguely heard of this before, but this is the first time I've seen an actual map from the era marking it.

They did have a pretty shitty idea of what North America looks like, and thought North America was a lot smaller than it actually was. But they marked all of what they considered North America to be Florida.

Their knowledge of Asia was pretty shitty, as was their knowledge of South America.

For whatever reason, their knowledge of Africa, while not perfect, was a lot more accurate than their knowledge of Asia, let alone their knowledge of the Americas. Actually, their map of Africa is probably better than their map of Europe itself.

They do some other strange things, like claim there's some massive bridge connecting Greenland (or some northern island that seems loosely akin to Greenland) all the way to the European mainland.

Their depiction of the shape of Britain and Ireland is terrible.They also had a horrible idea of the shape of Scandinavia.

Anyway, yeah, it's not just the eastern third of Louisiana that used to be part of Florida. The entire North American continent used to be part of Florida.

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