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Mayda

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History
Appearances on maps
In popular culture
Notes
References

Mayda (variously known as Maida, Mayd, Mayde, Brazir, Mam, Asmaida, Asmayda, Bentusle, Bolunda and Vlaanderen^[1]^[2]) is a non-existent island in the North Atlantic that has been shown on several published maps at various points in history. It was most often represented as being crescent-shaped and its position has varied widely over time. Early maps drew the island west of Brittany and southwest of Ireland, but it later moved towards the Americas (Newfoundland, Bermuda, West Indies).

History

The island first appeared under the name of Brazir, on the Pizigani brothers' 1367 map. It was crescent-shaped and sited southwest of the island of Brasil, on the same latitude of southern Brittany.^[3]

It appeared as Asmaidas on a map of the New World accompanying Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy's Geography.^[4]

Ortelius (in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum) placed a crescent-shaped island in the traditional location of Mayda with the name "Vlaenderen" ("Flanders").^[5]

Submerged land of the appropriate shape has been found in the area of early maps ({{coord|46|23|N|37|20|W|display=inline|type:isle}}) at a depth of 20 fathoms (120 ft; 36.5 m) which suggested to one author that Mayda may have existed.^[6]

The island is the namesake of Mayda Insula, an island in the Kraken Mare on Saturn's moon Titan.^[7]

Appearances on maps

Pizigani brothers map (1367) as Brazir^[8]^[3]
Catalan map (1375) as Mam^[9]
Pinelli map (1384) as Jonzele/I.Onzele^[9]
Pizzigano Map (1424) either as Ventura or Ymana.
Bianco world map (1448) as Bentusla^[9]
Waldseemüller map (1513) as Asmaidas^[10]
Prunes map (1553) as Mayda^[11]
Nicolay map (1560) as I man orbolunda^[5]

In popular culture

The island of Mayda is a principal location in the novel A Web of Air, by Philip Reeve.

Notes

1. ^{{Cite journal | last = Babcock | first = William H. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The so-called mythical islands of the Atlantic in Mediæval maps | journal = Scottish Geographical Magazine | volume = 31 | issue = 10 | pages = 531–541 | publisher = | location = | year = 1915 | language = | url = | jstor = | issn = | doi = 10.1080/00369221508734208 | id = | mr = | zbl = | jfm = | accessdate = }}
2. ^Babcock, p.81
3. ^¹Babcock, p. 83
4. ^Babcock, p. 82
5. ^¹Ramsay, p. 219
6. ^Ramsay, p. 220
7. ^{{cite web |url=https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/14401;jsessionid=853D12EC763343D4DDA76A35ACE3CC21 |title=Mayda Insula |author= |date=April 11, 2008 |website=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature |publisher=International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) |access-date=June 28, 2017 |quote=}}
8. ^Ramsay, p. 216
9. ^¹²Ramsay, p. 217
10. ^Ramsay, p. 217-8
11. ^Ramsay, p. 218

References

{{Cite book | last = Hamilton-Paterson | first = James | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Great Deep. The Sea and its Thresholds | publisher = Random House | series = | volume = | edition = | year = 1992 | location = New York | pages = | language = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0-679-40596-2 | mr = | zbl = | jfm = }}
{{Cite book | last = Babcock | first = William Henry | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study in Medieval Geography | publisher = American Geographical Society of New York | series = Research Series | volume = Issue 8 | edition = | year = 1922 | location = | pages = | language = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = | mr = | zbl = | jfm = }}
{{cite book | last = Ramsay | first = Raymond | title = No Longer on the Map: discovering places that never were | publisher = Viking Press | location = New York | year = 1972 | isbn = 0-670-51433-0 | page = | chapter = The Maybe of Mayda}}

2 : Phantom islands of the Atlantic|Islands of the North Atlantic Ocean

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