Abraham Ortelius’s world map was part of a bound volume of maps titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, [Theater of the World], now considered the first world atlas. Extending through thirty-three editions and translated into six languages, Terrarum influenced European ideas about world geography in general, and ideas about the Arctic in particular. Note the clearly defined channel above the American continent running east-west, as well as a series of Arctic channels running north-south towards the North Pole.
Abraham Ortelius, Belgium, 1527-1598
Map of the World (Typus orbis terrarium), 1612
hand-colored engraving
Courtesy of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine, SM-1612-5
Image: 15.004
From : http://usm.maine.edu
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