print email comment close The European Discovery of the Pacific URL: http://www.stanfords.co.uk/articles/mad-about-maps/the-european-discovery-of-the-pacific,125,AR.html Description: This version of a talk by a cartographic historian discusses the European discovery of the Pacific Ocean by Vasco Nunez de Balboa in September 1513 and how a 1507 world map published in Strasbourg appears to show "America North and South as two very large island-continents ... and beyond them lies an ocean stretching some thousands of miles west." Includes image of the 1507 map. From a UK retailer of maps and travel books. Author: Whitfield, Peter Publisher: Stanfords Books and Maps Extra Keywords Martin Waldseemuller Amerigo Vespucci LII Database Information: Record 24497 created by Maria Brandt on 09/11/2007 Last modification on 09/11/2007 Published: 09/20/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24497