Age of Exploration

Where these things are

Where on Earth? Coordinates on Earth, in the WGS 84 frame.

9 objects on Earth · No coastline dataset is held in this repository and none can be fetched here. A hand-drawn outline would be invented geometry sitting next to sourced coordinates at the same visual weight, so the map shows the graticule and the points, and names each place beside it.

The places on Earth9

area: — A region, drawn as one. The centre is not a location.
soft: — A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.

Goa — approximate
Lisbon — approximate
Manila — approximate
Potosí — approximate
Seville — approximate
Tenochtitlan — approximate
Acapulco — approximate
The Moluccas (Maluku Islands) — regional
Cape of Good Hope — approximate

Not on this map

25 produced objects have no coordinate at all. A programme, a treaty, a vessel under way and an idea are not places, and none of them is given a position here to fill the screen. See how they relate instead →

Age of Exploration — 25 without a coordinate