Re: Hudson Bay on 1570 map.

"Doug Weller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
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> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:48:22 GMT, Inger E Johansson wrote:
>
> > There was someone asking for round maps the other day. As I wrote then
most
> > of those I have aren't to be found on net,
> > but I took some time looking around and what did I find? One I had
> > forgotten....
> >
> > One more an the earliest of Ortelius maps over America. 1570. the bay
Hudson
> > is supposed to have found later is marked on the map.
> > http://www.vobam.se/amerika.htm#1
>
> David B showed that and Mercator's 1569 map in August when we were
> discussing maps:
>
> http://data2.archives.ca/nmc/n0017080-1.jpg
>
> In another discussion a couple of years ago Harald Henkel pointed out that
> it looks as though that body of water (be it a lake or Hudson's Bay) was
> only know from the south.

Doug,
remember the map at the school I worked last year? That map showed same as
the 1570 map + full coast from Hudson Bay to Newfoundland and westward as
well.... that map was an other early map. We tried to take a photo of the
map but the digitalcamera wasn't good enough for details.

Inger E
>
> Doug