The Next Big Task

With the final continent finally set foot on, the next order of business was to map it. The first map of the world that features a mass of land down south is from the 1500s. Abraham Ortelius did the drawing, but its details were only based on the belief that a big chunk of land exists to counterbalance what’s up north.

That said, it’s no surprise that that rendition doesn’t resemble the present-day drawings of Antarctica that we have on our world maps now. Ortelius simply didn’t have the knowledge and technology that his followers had.