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    Carta marina et descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum (Latin for Marine map and description of the Northern lands; commonly abbreviated Carta marina) is...
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    kraken, various sea-monsters were illustrated on his famous map, the Carta marina (1539). Modern writers have since tried to interpret various sea creatures...
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    Waldseemüller's Carta marina navigatoria (1522), revised by Laurentius Fries, has the morsus moved to the Davis Strait. Bishop Olaus Magnus's Carta Marina map of...
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    at the Library of Congress Carta Marina of 1516, Speaker: Chet Van Duzer Video from the Library of Congress Carta Marina of 1516, digital copy at the...
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  • Works by Olaus Magnus in digital library Polona Carta Marina James Bell Ford Library, Minnesota Carta Marina satellite images The Plymouth Marine Laboratory...
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    Moskstraumen into his detailed report on the Nordic countries and their map, Carta Marina (1539). He attributed the whirlpool to divine forces and mentioned that...
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    Saami, and morse in French. Olaus Magnus, who depicted the walrus in the Carta Marina in 1539, first referred to the walrus as the ros marus, probably a Latinization...
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    The maelstrom off Norway as illustrated by Olaus Magnus on the Carta Marina, 1539....
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    cartographer Olaus Magnus located Bjarmaland in the Kola Peninsula in his Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium terrarum (1539), while Swedish humanist...
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    Part of the Carta marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, depicting the location of magnetic north vaguely conceived as "Insula Magnetu[m]" (Latin for "Island...
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