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Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen ca 1550 Sebastian Münster View this Map	Thomas Jefferys d. 1771 England View this Map See all Thomas Jefferys maps
Münster's map of the western hemisphere is the first printed map to show North and South America as completely separate from Asia. The land mass in the upper left contains the label India, and the island of Zipangri, or Japan, is shown off the west coast of Central America. The Strait of Magellan is labeled off the southern tip of South America, and Magellan's ship Victoria is shown in the Pacific Ocean. Also of note is the Sea of Verrazano in North America, a great inland sea thought by the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano to lie to the west of the Outer Banks of North Carolina before the mainland in that area had been explored. In South America, a forest in Braz... more	One of the most important British cartographers of the 18th century, Jefferys worked as the Geographer to the Prince of Wales, and later as Geographer to King George III. In his early work he produced comprehensive maps of England and Wales with scales down to 1 in. = 1 mile. His most important work started in the 1760s with his A general topography of North America and the West Indies, a fine collection of maps covering in great detail regions and cities from Canada to Mexico and the Caribbean.