Jun 29, 2021
The map that appears on Twitter's career website, Tweep Life, shows a demarcation between the map of India and Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
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The map that appears on Twitter's career website, Tweep Life, shows a demarcation between the map of India and Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
WHEN CALIFORNIA WAS AN ISLAND After Cortés sent the navigator Francisco de Ulloa to explore the region, early maps in the 16th century (e.g., Mercator or Ortelius) correctly depicted Baja California as a peninsula. However, someone messed up and from 1622 on, starting with Michiel Colijn, cartographers began depicting California as an island. This misconception survived on the maps long until the 18th century.
Ferdinand Konščak, a Croatian missionary, explorer, and cartographer, was one of the key persons to set the matter right. In 1748 he created a correct map of Baja California and in 1750 a map of the Gulf of California. The issue was definitively laid to rest by the expeditions of Juan Bautista de Anza (1774-1776).
Find more: Old Cabo, Frank Jacobs @ BigThink, Wikipedia
Maps: Joan Vinckeboons (circa 1650), Peking in 1674 (Glen McLaughlin Map Collection), English map from 1646 (Glen McLaughlin Map Collection), Michiel Colijn (1622)
The Chinese Communist Party wants you to use the "right" map - or else.
OMG I'm such a nerd. I just saw this on TV and I legit laughed out loud.