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- Frisland abstract "Frisland, also called Frischlant, Friesland, Frislandia, or Fixland, is a phantom island that appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s. It is not to be confused with the similarly named Friesland in the Netherlands.It originally may have referred to Iceland, but after the Zeno Map (1558) placed it as an entirely separate island south (or occasionally south-west) of Iceland, it appeared that way on maps for the next 100 years. Its existence was given currency in manuscript maps of the 1560s by the Maggiolo family of Genoa and was accepted by Mercator and Jodocus Hondius. Some early maps by Willem Blaeu, such as his 1617 map of Europe, omit it, but it reappears on his 1630 world map as one of many islands shown off the eastern coast of Labrador which was then believed to extend to within a few hundred miles of Scotland. Among its last appearances is in a 1652 world map by Visscher, largely copied from that of Blaeu.Frisland was shown as a roughly rectangular island with three triangular promontories on its western coast. Its place-names have a very Italian look (Aqua, Spagia, Bondendea, Monaco), a fact which seems to reinforce the suspicion that its details were fabricated in southern Europe.Frisland eventually came to be identified with the Faroe Islands. However, Frisland and the Faroe Islands both appear on several maps, many hundreds of miles apart.Frisland appears to be born out of confusion between an imaginary island and the actual southern part of Greenland. Even in the mid 18th century, explorers' maps clearly depicted Frisland as separated from Greenland by a wide strait.The myth of Frisland was exposed as explorers, chiefly from England and France, charted and mapped the north-west waters. However, Frederick J. Pohl identifies Frisland with an island he refers to as "Fer Island", possibly Fair Isle, an island lying between mainland Shetland and the Orkney islands.".
- Frisland thumbnail Map_by_nicolo_zeno_1558.jpg?width=300.
- Frisland wikiPageID "528989".
- Frisland wikiPageRevisionID "597555850".
- Frisland date "August 2011".
- Frisland hasPhotoCollection Frisland.
- Frisland reason "hardly squares with later statement that the island was depicted on maps of the mid 18th century".
- Frisland subject Category:History_of_Greenland.
- Frisland subject Category:Islands_of_the_North_Atlantic_Ocean.
- Frisland subject Category:Phantom_islands.
- Frisland type Island109316454.
- Frisland type IslandsOfTheNorthAtlanticOcean.
- Frisland type Land109334396.
- Frisland type Object100002684.
- Frisland type PhantomIslands.
- Frisland type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Frisland type YagoGeoEntity.
- Frisland type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Frisland comment "Frisland, also called Frischlant, Friesland, Frislandia, or Fixland, is a phantom island that appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s. It is not to be confused with the similarly named Friesland in the Netherlands.It originally may have referred to Iceland, but after the Zeno Map (1558) placed it as an entirely separate island south (or occasionally south-west) of Iceland, it appeared that way on maps for the next 100 years.".
- Frisland label "Frisland".
- Frisland label "Frisland".
- Frisland label "Frisland".
- Frisland label "Frisland".
- Frisland label "Frisland".
- Frisland label "Frislandia".
- Frisland label "Frislandia".
- Frisland label "Frislândia".
- Frisland label "Фрисланд".
- Frisland sameAs Frisland.
- Frisland sameAs Frisland.
- Frisland sameAs Frislandia.
- Frisland sameAs Frisland.
- Frisland sameAs Frislandia.
- Frisland sameAs Frisland.
- Frisland sameAs Frisland.
- Frisland sameAs Frislândia.
- Frisland sameAs m.02lzr5.
- Frisland sameAs Q930506.
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- Frisland sameAs Frisland.
- Frisland wasDerivedFrom Frisland?oldid=597555850.
- Frisland depiction Map_by_nicolo_zeno_1558.jpg.
- Frisland isPrimaryTopicOf Frisland.