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Tupaia\u2019s map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Knowable<\/em>, Cristy Gelling looks at new interpretations of Tupaia\u2019s map of the Pacific Ocean<\/a>. Tupaia<\/a> was a Polynesian navigator who became attached to Cook\u2019s expedition. His map, drawn beginning in 1769, has confounded observers because its islands do not line up with the actual geography of the Pacific\u2019s islands. One 2018 study<\/a> deciphers the map with an alternative, more complicated arrangement in which north is at the centre of the map. This proposal is not universally accepted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Knowable, Cristy Gelling looks at new interpretations of Tupaia\u2019s map of the Pacific Ocean. Tupaia was a Polynesian navigator who became attached to Cook\u2019s expedition. His map, drawn beginning in 1769, has confounded observers… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,292],"tags":[1518,1550],"class_list":["post-1805870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-nautical","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-polynesia","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1805735,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/la-perouses-expeditions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805870,"position":0},"title":"La P\u00e9rouse’s Expeditions","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 December 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The Library of Congress\u2019s Carissa Pastuch has a blog post about the Pacific Ocean expeditions of Jean-Fran\u00e7ois de Galaup La P\u00e9rouse, and the maps that resulted from them\u2014including the above map by Buache de Neuville, made in 1785 so that Louis XVI could follow La P\u00e9rouse\u2019s progress.","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Library of Congress scan of Buache de Neuville's map of the northern Pacific Ocean, 1785.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/la-perouse-ocean-1024x406.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/la-perouse-ocean-1024x406.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/la-perouse-ocean-1024x406.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/la-perouse-ocean-1024x406.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2360,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/07\/has-the-ricci-map-been-altered\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805870,"position":1},"title":"Has the Ricci Map Been Altered?","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 July 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"This\u00a0Taipei Times article suggests that some copies of the Ricci map\u2014Matteo Ricci\u2019s 1602 map of the world produced for the Chinese emperor\u2014have been altered, possibly to support (or at least not contradict) the present-day Chinese territorial claim to the Spratly Islands (and the\u00a0nine-dash line). 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