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THE ANTARCTIC. 



the west. The importance of this account as a prelude 

 to the discovery of the Straits of Magellan 1 cannot here 

 be dwelt upon. It was, however, important as the 

 starting-point for a representation of the Terra australis 

 incognita, according to the imagination of the Nuremberg 



Terra australis (after Schoner's globe of 1533). 



geographer and astronomer, Johannes Schoner. In 15 15 

 he constructed a globe on which the South American 

 continent, or according to his own designation, America, 

 really comes to an end in latitude 40° to 41 S. Thence 



1 More accurately " Magalhaes". 



