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c/bad-maps-hall-of-shamenathan_torres34nathan_torres347d agoProlific Poster

Spent a full hour laughing at a map of Europe from 1597

Found this old map someone posted where Africa is drawn like a crooked potato and Scandinavia is just floating off by itself. The scale is so off that Norway looks bigger than the whole Mediterranean Sea. I sat there for 20 minutes trying to figure out where they even got the reference for this thing. Has anyone else found a map so bad it made you question how people navigated back then?
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rosejackson
Wait the whole of Scandinavia is just floating out there in the ocean? That's unhinged, people actually used these to get around.
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