Mistakes on Maps - Fringe 2026
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Mistakes on Maps
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Flat Earth
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Babylonian Map of the World - 8th Century, BC
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Animaxander's View of the World - 6th Century, BC
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It Is Round, But How Round
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Globe - Martin Behaim - 1492
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Behaim Globe - 1492
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Ocean Map - from globe by Martin Behaim - 1492
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What Columbus Thought
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Martin Behaim 1492 - Eastern Hemisphere
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Martin Behaim 1492 - Western Hemisphere
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East Indies or West Indies?
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Ulm Ptolemy - 1482
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The World - Waldseemueller - 1507
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Here Be Dragons!
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Hunt-Lenox Globe - 1508
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The Lenox Globe Map
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The Great Southern Continent Below
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Tabula Prima Europab - 1482
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Oval planisphere - 1530 - Biblioteca Vaticana, codex Urb Lat 274
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Typus Orbus Terrarum - Ortelius - 1570
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Sea Monsters
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Carta Marina - Olaus Magnus - 1539
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Indiae Orientalis - Abraham Ortelius - 1570
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Universale Descrittione Di Tutta la Terra Conosciuta Fin Qui - Giacomo Gastaldi - 1568
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Map of the Sea - Olaus Magnus - 1572
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Monstrous People
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Psalter Map - artist unknown - 1265
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Psalter Map (Line Drawing)
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Borgia Map - 1450
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Borgia Map (Line Drawing)
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Borgia Map (Line Drawing with Translated Text)
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Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio - Diego Gutiérrez - 1562
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Flat Earth - Round 2 & 3
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T-O Maps
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Paradise
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Psalter Map - artist unknown - 1265DUPLICATED
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Paradise - Hondius and Mercator - 1607
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Paradise - Mathieu Brouart Beroalde - 1575
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The Map of Hell - Sandro Botticelli - 1480-1490
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Prester John
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Christendom vs. Islam
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The Crusades
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Prester John - Diego Homem - 1558
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The Mythical Kingdoms of Prester John
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Prester John - British Library
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Africa - Munster - 1550
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A Description of the Empire of Prester John - Abraham Ortelius - 1564
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Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea - Giacomo Maggiolo - 1553
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Portolan - Jacobus Russus of Messina - 1533
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The Island of California
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Map of the World - Hendrik Hondius - 1630
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North America - Berry & Sanson - 1680DUPLICATED
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La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline - Nicolas de Fer - 1720DUPLICATED
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The Darien Scheme
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William Paterson
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New Caledonia in Darien - Herman Moll - 1699
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Map of Darien
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The Americas
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Location of Darien
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The Northwest Passage
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Magellan's Circumnavigation - 1522
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Verrazzano's Voyage - 1524
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North and South America - Sebastian Munster - 1559
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British Possessions in America - Thomas and Andrews - 1805
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Northwest Passage - Robert de Vaugondy - 1772
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Franklin Expedition - 1845
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Magellan Expedition - 1521
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The North Pole - Gerhard Mercator - 1595
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The Outer Banks
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Amundsen + Crew + Gjoa - 1905
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Cantino Planisphere - Unknown Maker - 1502
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Expeditions to Find The Northwest Passage
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North and South America - Noël-Antoine Pluche - 1764-1772
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Man Proposes, God Disposes - Edwin Landseer - 1864
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The Australian Inland Sea
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Map of the World - Hendrik Hondius - 1630
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Planiglobii Terrestris - Johann Baptist Homann - 1716
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Matthew Flinders Map of Australia - 1814
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Australia's Inland Sea - Thomas J. Maslen - 1827
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Quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Mountains of Kong
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Africa - Munster - 1550
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Mungo Park - 1771-1806
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North Africa - James Rennell - 1798
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A New Map of Africa" - John Cary - 1805
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King Kong - 1933
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Fake Islands for Financiers
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Polar Fever
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Peary & Crocker
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Cook & Bradley
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Map of Supposed Crocker Land and Bradley Land - 1912
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The Arctic - 1910
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Baldwin-Ziegler Expedition - Anthony Fiala - 1903
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Famous Forgeries
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Nicolo Zeno and The Zeno Brothers
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The Zeno Map - 1558(?)
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Memoirs of George Psalmanazar - 1704
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A Map of Formosa - George Psalmanazar - 1704
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Images of Formosa - George Psalmanazar - 1704
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George Psalmanazar at Oxford - 1704
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Yale Announces The Vinland Map - 1965
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Vinland Map - Forgery
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Yale Announces They Know How To Spot Fakes - 2021
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Canals on Mars
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Galileo in His Study - ChatGPT - 2026
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Galileo's sketches of the moon - 1610
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Giovanni Schiaparelli - 1877
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Mars - Schiaparelli - 1877
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Mars - Giovanni Schiaparelli - 1877
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Percival Lowell at his Observatory
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Percival Lowell’s Drawing of Canals on Mars
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Percival Lowell’s Theory About Ancient Canals Built on Mars
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War Of The Worlds - Orson Welles - 1938
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A Map of Life Mistakes
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US Government Map of Mars - 1962
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The Road to Success - Etude Magazine - 1913
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A Map or Chart of the Road of Love, and Harbour of Marriage - 1748
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Matrimonial Chart
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Woman’s Heart
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Man’s Heart
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Male and female heart
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The Open Polar Sea
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The North Pole - Gerhard Mercator - 1595
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Open Polar Sea - Silas Bent - 1872
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Jeannette Expedition
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Map Traps
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Map of Michigan (Goblu) - Peter Fletcher, State Highway Commission - 1978-1979
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London A to Z
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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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General View of London & Ski Slope
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Map of Boston - Gulf Motor Oil Company - 1942 & 1943 (from David Smollar)
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Agloe General Store
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Agloe on New York State Map
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Otto G. Lindberg & Ernest Alpers ~ 1930
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Agloe New York
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Flat Earth map - Orlando Ferguson - 1893
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Wait? What's Your Name?
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Falkland Islands or Islas Malvinas?
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Myanmar or Burma?
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Londonderry or Derry?
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Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf?
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Sea of Japan or East Sea?
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Venice Flexes Its Muscles
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Emperor Hadrian
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Adriatic Sea - 1572
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Gulf of Venice - 1716
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The Return of the Adriatic Sea - 1797
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Gulf of What?
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Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio - Diego Gutiérrez - 1562
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Gulf of Mexico - 1719
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Gulf of America or Gulf of Mexico?
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The Cynic's Version
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The Cartographic Corollary
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Scilly Naval Disaster
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John HarrisonDUPLICATED
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Latitude and LongitudeDUPLICATED
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H4
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Mark Twain Quote
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John Harrison
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Nevil Maskelyne
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Never Let The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Story - Mark Twain
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Example Exhibit of Maps
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Example 2 Exhibit of Maps
Place a DOT on the image