Antique Map of California as an Island by Joan Vinckeboons - 1650
by Blue Monocle
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Antique Map of California as an Island by Joan Vinckeboons - 1650
Artist
Blue Monocle
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Drawing - Engraving
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One of the major geographic misconceptions originating during the discovery and exploration of North America was the depiction of California as an island. Based on erroneous Spanish manuscript accounts, European cartographers began in 1622 to portray the western coast of North America as a separate island. Major publishers, especially the British and the Dutch, accepted this concept well into the early eighteenth century, long after Father Eusebio Kino confirmed during exploration of the American southwest from 1698 to 1701 that California was not an island.
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