Educational Map Series: Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas (Map A) Paper Products:36x45 or 36x53

Educational Map Series: Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas (Map A) Paper Products:36x45 or 36x53Housed in the Library of Congress is the Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean and Connecting Seas. This 1550 portolan charts cartographer is unknown, and its title is one devised by a cataloguer. Still, its significance is not to be overlooked as it represents a significant example of an early marine invention that greatly enhanced sea navigation with new accuracy. There are over a hundred surviving portolan charts in existence, many of which can have

The map is graphic and highly detailed and is characterized as one of the "most accurate general map of the Far West for its time" (Schwartz and Ehrenberg

Topographical map of the Hawaiian Islands

The map likely served to show Dutch exploration and expansion into Africa and the sailing routes taken to reach certain regions of the Continent

The lake is host to numerous migratory birds and is a habitat for swans

who named the American continent on the map in honor of Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci

You will also receive a custom cartouche and a heart on the city of your choice

Tejuas and Navahoes

great blue herons

who as a result of the Hellgate Treaty of 1855 established the Flathead Indian Reservation in the lower Flathead Valley

El Camino del Norte (The Northern Way)

with the upper left-hand panel showing the entire State of Alaska

with limited public access