Harvard Map Collection

We think we have just acquired our longest map: a 1962 river guide of the Colorado passing fully through the Grand Canyon, ca. 45'. Mapmaker, Les "Buckethead" Jones.

In this detail of a 1630 Mercator/Hondius strike, a Patagonian colossus strides across the unknown region (at least to the Spanish) where Chile and Argentina now meet; a testament to Magellan and his crew's conviction that the Tehuelche people were giants.

returns us far north of the equator, to espy a fabled sea-unicorn breaking the waters near the fabled Northwest Passage; where the equally fabled region of gold, Quivira, is located a bit too far west by de Jode on this 1593 map.