Educational Map Series: Africae Accuratissima Allatoona lake West Indies and the north

West Indies and the north coast of South America are shown

is perhaps one of the earliest large format maps available depicting Florida and the Gulf Coast region in such a detailed fashion

and as such

shown as a land mass not covered by ice cap as it occurred thousands of years ago

Alaska presented the opportunity for railroad companies to meet the new demands

Educational Map Series: Africae Accuratissima Allatoona lake West Indies and the northAn early map of Africa, Totius Afric Accuratissima Tabula, is believed to have been published in Amsterdam in 1688 and is the work of Fredrik de Wit. Who was Fredrik de Wit? Born in Gouda, Netherlands, Wit was a Dutch cartographer, who was active during the second half of the 17th and the early 18th centuries. He worked under Willem Blaeu in Amsterdam, where he resided in the 1640s, and also established his own publishing shop, where he published