In a fascinating exposé, a visual campaign reveals that the familiar world map we all grew up with is more illusion than fact ...

After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map ... Words on maps, it turned out, had sticking power. The earliest chart printed in Europe of the Gulf formerly ...

His maps depicted most of Europe, the northern half ... The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America. Ringmann didn't have long ...

Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe ... leaving the world with six continents rather than seven. Map of the Northwest Atlantic.