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English: This figure depicts the northwestern quadrant of the Peter Martyr map as corrected in Peck 2003, p 96, fig 4. Base map from USM, processed via MacOS Pages.

In the figure, roman numerals identify the following features -

  • (i) 'extensive bank, islands, and cape off the northeast coast of Honduras' (p 97),
  • (ii) 'the Yucatan peninsula' (p 98),
  • (iii) 'The Tortugas keys' (p 98),
  • (iv) 'Andros Island' (p 98),
  • (v) 'Los Cay and Guinchos Cay' (p 99),
  • (vi) 'extensive Great Bahama Bank' (p 99),
  • (vii) 'Isla de Beimeni' (p 99),
  • (viii) 'Guanahani (San Salvador)' (p 100),
  • (ix) 'extensive Caicos Bank' (p 100),
  • (x) 'Grand Turk' (p 100),
  • the ex mark (×) over western tip of Cuba marks 'the inaccurate northerly trend of the western end of Cuba' (p 96).

Note -

  1. latitudes not precisely marked in this copy nor in the original figure.
  2. originally captioned 'Modified scale drawing of the northwestern part of Peter Martyr’s 1511 map of the Indies.'
  3. Original base map from 'an original in the Newberry Library, Chicago.'

References = Peck DT (May 2003). "The First European Charting of Florida and the Adjacent Shores". Florida Geographer. 34: 82–114. ISSN 0739-0041.

Base map = , via the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, call number 244.0001, URI https://oshermaps.org/browse-maps?id=110388.
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Peck correction of the Peter Martyr map / 2003 figure by D Peck

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