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Ridiculous Maps: That Time Everyone Thought California Was An Island
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:34:39
Publish Date: 2025-11-27 12:00:00
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Nowadays, pretty much anyone can easily find an accurate map of a city, a country, or the entire world. But this wasn't always the case. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore baffling cartography of old, when well-intentioned mapmakers, working with the best info they had at the time, often got things wrong. Our first episode in this continuing series: that time everyone thought California was an island.

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