A Conversation for Picture Quiz: Where's Waldo?
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Gnomon - time to move on Started conversation Feb 6, 2018
I love old maps and that's a nice one.
I think the maker has tried to increase the number of oceans in the world - there's the German Ocean, which is usually called the North Sea.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Feb 6, 2018
I like old maps, too - somehow, they seem creative, particularly when they don't know something and just make it up.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Feb 8, 2018
Sorry, a typo there. I meant to say Frisland, the phantom island southwest of Iceland that appears to have been made up by the cartographer Blaeu.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Feb 8, 2018
Ah! 
Definitely a good topic, tell us more...
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