We love our Ortelius and the fascinating history behind its name! Learn about Abraham Ortelius, the pioneering cartographer who inspired our vessel 🌍🗺️ And check our website for the available voyages on Ortelius 👉 https://ow.ly/RBNv50SiNRR 📸 Alexandra den Dikken, Mike Louagie and Sasha Rachkova | Oceanwide Expeditions

Mermaids, sea monsters, and polar bears... oh my! 🧜‍♀️🐻‍❄️ This is our Ortelius Atlas, or Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, compiled by Abraham Ortelius. It features maps by numerous cartographers and is considered the world's first modern atlas. The illustrations include many interesting and colorful subjects like mermaids, shipwrecks, sea monsters, and polar bears! The original production of the Ortelius atlas in 1590 marks the beginning of the Netherlandish Golden Age of Cartography, and the map con

Explore Abraham Ortelius’s famous map of the northern Atlantic regions titled: Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip. This antique map is from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas and shows Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and parts of North America in great detail. The map also shows many mythical islands: the islands of Hy Brasil & st Brendan from Celtic mythology, Drogeo believed to represent Newfoundland, Frisland which is just off the coast of Iceland, and Groclandt. The

ABRAHAM ORTELIUS: FATHER OF the ATLAS AND PIONEER CARTOGRAPHER Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) was a Flemish cartographer, geographer, and scholar from Antwerp, in present-day Belgium. He is best remembered as the creator of the first modern atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), published in 1570. Ortelius’s work revolutionized mapmaking by bringing together knowledge from various sources into a single, organized collection, laying the foundation for modern cartography...... Read f