Description: A facsimile of the chart made by Hieronimo de Verrazano, brother of explorer Giovanni de Verrazano, in 1527, after the 1524 expedition along the North American Atlantic coastline from South Carolina to New York Bay. The map uses the standards of the French, Spanish, and Portuguese kings to denote territorial claims by the countries, and shows Lavoradore (Labrador), Cortereal (the lands explored by the Portuguese João Vaz Corte–Real), Francesca (the region of North America from the Carolinas to Canada), Tera Florida (the region of North America from the Carolinas to Honduras), the Ycatan as an island, Cuba, Spagnolla (Hispaniola), Mare Oceanum (Atlantic Ocean), and Mare Indicum (Indian Ocean). The map also shows the isthmus supposed to separate the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Place Names: A Regional Map of Globes and Multi-continent, North America, South Americ
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters
Keywords: The Verrazano Map, borders,
historical,
transportation,
physical, water routes, historical event, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters, Unknown, 1527
Source: Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America (vol. 4) (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1884) 26
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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