An incredible effort has been made to map the mystery missing continent of Zealandia which was only recently discovered ...

New York The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way—"surrounded on all sides by the ocean," in the words of an accompanying book—and named the continent for ...

The continent contains ... In the past, maps were hand-drawn by using careful measurements of the ground. Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved.

In 1502, as Europeans hungrily looked to the vast new continent across the ... acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue ...