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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al Istakhri, Map of the World, Istakhri, 9th century?

Map of the world from the earliest of the KMMS Ottoman Cluster, 878/1473, Sulemaniye Camii Kutuphanesi, Istanbul, A.S. 2971a, fol. 3a.

Tags: coastal, medieval

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri (آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري) (also Estakhri, Persian: استخری‎, i.e. from the Iranian city of Istakhr, b. - d. 957 AD [346AH][1]) was a Persian medieval geographer in medieval Islam and traveler of the 10th century., Map of the Persian Gulf by Estakhri, 8-9thC

8-9thC map of the Persian Gulf

Tags: coastal, early modern, Persian Gulf

...?, Muddy Run on a Tuesday, 2018

The flooding creek on Stahl Lane

S. Gurney Cresswell, A map illustrating Cresswell's arctic expedition (1854), 1854

From : A series of eight sketches in colour (together with a chart of the route), by Lieut. S. Gurney Cresswell, of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator…

Tags: Arctic, British, climate change, nineteenth century

Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, U.S. Navy, Ice Chart, Grand Banks Region, September, October (1946)
, 1946

Atlas provides colored monthly maps detailing the extent and character of the ice for each principal region of the Northern Hemisphere known to have…

Tags: climate change, twentieth century

n/a, Early Map of New York City, 1830

This map is from the 1830s. It was originally made in 1723 and is a detailed rendition of lower Manhattan, New York settled by the Dutch. It was then…

Joe Nickell, Treasure Map of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, 1999-2000

Further information: "The Secrets of Oak Island" (Skeptical Inquirer Volume 24.2, March / April 2000)…

Tags: commodity, Nova Scotia, twentieth century