Educational Map Series: Africae Accuratissima davenport

Educational Map Series: Africae Accuratissima davenportAn early map of Africa, Totius Afric Accuratissima Tabula, is believed to have been published in Amsterdam in 1688 and is the work of Fredrik de Wit. Who was Fredrik de Wit? Born in Gouda, Netherlands, Wit was a Dutch cartographer, who was active during the second half of the 17th and the early 18th centuries. He worked under Willem Blaeu in Amsterdam, where he resided in the 1640s, and also established his own publishing shop, where he published

Bordered by New York

Shade Acres Campground

the natural resources of the region and barriers to travel

The lake is host to numerous migratory birds and is a habitat for swans

while the ornate compass roses allow for more precise directional bearings

Washington and western Montana

clam digging became a major industry on Marco Island and throughout the Ten Thousand Islands region

including seabirds

This glacial

The lake is also popular with boaters

Some thousands of years ago

making it a truly remarkable place