Mistakes on Maps
Flat Earth
Belief in a Flat Earth
Babylonian Map of the World - 8th Century, BC
Babylonian Clay Tablet
Flat Earth - Anaximander - 6th Century BCE
Round Earth - Aristotle - 4th Century BCE
Crackpots Will Always Exist
Flat Earth map - Orlando Ferguson - 1893
It Is Round, But How Round
Circumference of the Earth, by Eratosthenes, 3rd Century BCE
The Almagest - Ptolemy - 2nd Century CE
The Tetrabiblios - Ptolemy - 2nd Century CE
The Geography - Ptolemy - 2nd Century CE
Ulm Ptolemy - 1482
Globe - Martin Behaim - 1492
Behaim Globe - 1492
Map of the World According to Christopher Columbus - 1490
America or Columbia?
Columbus Pitches His Expedition To The Indies, 1484-1492
European Explorations in America - 1492 - 1610
When Facts Don't Match The Conclusion
The First Viral Idea in Geography, 1504
The World - Waldseemueller - 1507
The Great Southern Continent Below
Classical Theory of Climata
Mean Monthly Temperature in August
Tabula Prima Europab - 1482
Oval planisphere - 1530 - Biblioteca Vaticana, codex Urb Lat 274
Typus Orbus Terrarum - Ortelius - 1570
Map of the World - Hendrik Hondius - 1630
Final Proof of No Great Southern Continent Below - 1772-1775
Here Be Dragons!
Here Be Dragons - More Popular Today Than In The Past
Hunt Lenox Globe and My Cousin Danny
Hunt-Lenox Globe - 1508
The Lenox Globe Map
Sea Monsters
Where Knowledge Ended, Mapmakers Filled Oceans With Sea Monsters
Indiae Orientalis - Abraham Ortelius - 1570
Universale Descrittione Di Tutta la Terra - 1568 - Conosciuta Fin Qui - Giacomo Gastaldi - 1568
Map of the Sea - Olaus Magnus - 1572
Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio - Diego Gutiérrez - 1562
Monstrous People
Monstrous People
Psalter Map - artist unknown - 1265
Psalter Map (Line Drawing)
Borgia Map - 1450
Borgia Map (Line Drawing)
Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio - Diego Gutiérrez - 1562
North and South America - Sebastian Munster - 1559
Africa - Munster - 1550
Paradise
Psalter Map - artist unknown - 1265DUPLICATED
Paradise - Hondius and Mercator - 1607
Paradise - Mathieu Brouart Beroalde - 1575
The Map of Hell - Sandro Botticelli - 1480-1490
The Map of Hell (detail) - Botticelli -
Prester John
Christendom vs. Islam
The Crusades
The Letter of Prester John, 1165
Prester John - Diego Homem - 1558
The Letter Was A Fake
The Mythical Kingdoms of Prester John
Africa - Munster - 1550
Prester John - British Library
Portolan - Jacobus Russus of Messina - 1533
When Hope Grows Strong, The Truth Moves Along
The Island of California
Typus Orbus Terrarum - Ortelius - 1570
How California Came To Be Shown As An Island, 1602-1625
Map of the World - Hendrik Hondius - 1630
North America - Berry & Sanson - 1680DUPLICATED
La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline - Nicolas de Fer - 1720
The Darien Scheme
The Americas
Location of Darien
Spanish and Scottish Paths Across The Isthmus
The Promise of New Caledonia - 1697
New Caledonia and The Darien Scheme - Jenifer & Moll - 1699
New Caledonia in Darien - Herman Moll - 1699
The Disaster of Darien - 1700
Scilly Naval Disaster
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Nevil Maskelyne
John Harrison
The Northwest Passage
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Magellan's Circumnavigation - 1522
Cantino Planisphere - Unknown Maker - 1502
Verrazzano's Voyage - 1524
North and South America - Sebastian Munster - 1559
The North Pole - Gerhard Mercator - 1595
Expeditions to Find The Northwest Passage
British Possessions in America - Thomas and Andrews - 1805
Northwest Passage - Robert de Vaugondy - 1772
Franklin Expedition - 1845
Amundsen + Crew + Gjoa - 1905
Man Proposes, God Disposes - Edwin Landseer - 1864
The Australian Inland Sea
Map of the World - Hendrik Hondius - 1630
Planiglobii Terrestris - Johann Baptist Homann - 1716
Matthew Flinders Map of Australia - 1814
Thomas Maslen, 1827
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi - Guillaume de L'Isle - 1718
The Danube in Europe
Australia's Inland Sea - Thomas J. Maslen - 1827
Quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mountains of Kong
Africa - Munster - 1550
Mungo Park - 1771-1806
North Africa - James Rennell - 1798
A New Map of Africa" - John Cary - 1805
King Kong - 1933
King Kong - 1933
Fake Islands for Financiers
Polar Fever
Baldwin-Ziegler Expedition - Anthony Fiala - 1903
Peary & Crocker
Cook & Bradley
Map of Supposed Crocker Land and Bradley Land - 1912
The Arctic - 1910
Famous Forgeries
Nicolo Zeno and The Zeno Brothers
The Zeno Map - 1558(?)
Memoirs of George Psalmanazar - 1704
A Map of Formosa - George Psalmanazar - 1704
Images of Formosa - George Psalmanazar - 1704
George Psalmanazar at Oxford - 1704
Yale Announces The Vinland Map - 1965
Vinland Map - Forgery
Yale Announces They Know How To Spot Fakes - 2021
Canals on Mars
Galileo in His Study - ChatGPT - 2026
Galileo's sketches of the moon - 1610
Giovanni Schiaparelli - 1877
Mars - Schiaparelli - 1877
Mars - Giovanni Schiaparelli - 1877
Percival Lowell at his Observatory
Percival Lowell’s Drawing of Canals on Mars
Percival Lowell’s Theory About Ancient Canals Built on Mars
War Of The Worlds - Orson Welles - 1938
A Map of Life Mistakes
The Road to Success - Etude Magazine - 1913
A Map or Chart of the Road of Love, and Harbour of Marriage - 1748
Woman’s Heart
Man’s Heart
The Open Polar Sea
The North Pole - Gerhard Mercator - 1595
The Gulf Stream - Ben Franklin
Open Polar Sea - Silas Bent - 1872
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The Arctic - 1910
Jeannette Expedition
Map Traps
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Map of Michigan (Goblu) - Peter Fletcher, State Highway Commission - 1978-1979
London A to Z
General View of London & Ski Slope
Ski Slope - London A to Z
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Specific View of Where Ski Slope Was Listed As A Map Trap
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Map of Boston - Gulf Motor Oil Company - 1942 & 1943 (from David Smollar)
Otto G. Lindberg & Ernest Alpers ~ 1930
Agloe on New York State Map
Agloe General Store
Agloe New York
Wait? What's Your Name?
Falkland Islands or Islas Malvinas?
Myanmar or Burma?
Londonderry or Derry?
Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf?
Sea of Japan or East Sea?
Venice Flexes Its Muscles
Emperor Hadrian
Adriatic Sea - 1572
Gulf of Venice - 1716
The Return of the Adriatic Sea - 1797
Gulf of What?
Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio - Diego Gutiérrez - 1562
Gulf of Mexico - 1719
Gulf of America or Gulf of Mexico?
The Cynic's Version
The Cartographic Corollary
Never Let The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Story - Mark Twain
England, Great Britain, The United Kingdom