Monday, April 21, 2014

When California was an Island

Floating free


California by Dutch cartographer Peter Goos in 1666, Wired.com



When California was an Island


Glen McLaughln wandered into a London map shop in 1971 and discovered something strange, Wired reported today.

On a map from 1663, he noticed something he'd never seen before:  California was floating like a big carrot, untethered from west coast of North America.








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