Buache Map: Ice-Free Antarctica or Ancient Cartography?

The Buache Map: Antarctica Before Ice? Exploring Ancient Knowledge Few artifacts of cartographic history are as provocative and mysterious as the Buache Map, a chart drawn in Paris in 1737 by the French geographer Philippe Buache de la Neuville. The map’s depiction of Antarctica as two separate landmasses—a feature not scientifically confirmed until the 1958 […]