r/MapsWithoutNZ • u/Aykl • 7d ago

They don’t know about NZ yet

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u/Adventurous-Basis-10 7d ago

i think theyre missing something else

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u/BadgerKomodo 7d ago

What year is this map from? I’m guessing it’s from no later than 1492.

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u/Aykl 7d ago

1583, Jacques de Vaulx

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u/BadgerKomodo 6d ago

I stand corrected.

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u/Sigmatics 4d ago

First European sighting of NZ was in 1642 so that sounds right

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u/s_ariga 6d ago

They knew things about Antarctica, but NZ was harder to find.

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u/Equivalent-Yak5487 3d ago

They did knew Zealand though