Genevieve Carlton

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2017

Genevieve Carlton has a Ph.D in History from Northwestern University. She is the author of Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy (University of Chicago Press: 2015), and she also writes historical fiction under the pen name Sylvia Prince.

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A detail of the fictional Frisland, from a 1623 map of the North Pole.

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How to Put a Fake Island on the Map

Frisland never existed, but for centuries, people wanted to believe that it did.

From 1570, a world map by Abraham Ortelius.

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How 16th-Century European Mapmakers Described the World’s Oceans

For some, they were an obstacle. For others, they were an opportunity.

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