Piri Reis map

Piri Reis's nautical chart

The Piri Reis map is a map of the world drawn on a parchment of gazelle skin by a Turk named Piri Reis (Hadji Muhiddin Piri Ibn Hadji Mehmed) in 1513. This map has been used to support claims for a pre-modern exploration of Antarctica.

Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map showing the Central and South American coast. The appended notes say "the map of the western lands drawn by Columbus"[1]

Sources change

  1. Harwood, Jeremy 2007 To The End of the Earth. Struik, p69. ISBN 978-1-77007-608-2