Explore: Portolan

Portolan charts are the earliest known type of nautical charts, and the oldest known examples were made in the late 13th and early 14th centuries in the

partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The map is a portolan chart with compass roses and a windrose network for navigation, rather

of Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean in a portolan chart by Angelino Dulcert circa 1325, the Rex Tholomeus portolan chart circa 1360 and the Catalan Atlas

Claude Portolan (born 16 December 1960) is a French former international rugby union player. A product of hometown club SA Auterive, Portolan was a prop

expected of all Medieval mariners.[citation needed] In the earliest medieval portolan charts of the 14th century, compass roses were depicted as mere collections

investigations of map projections and the appearance of portolano and then portolan charts for plying the European trade routes were rare innovations of the

Portolan of Antonio Millo is a portolan chart by Antonio Millo from 1583. The portolan belonged to the library of the Zamoyski family. During the Warsaw

of this 1527 map was destroyed during World War II. There are numerous portolan charts, atlases and at least two other world maps made by Vesconte Maggiolo:

the principal winds on the compass rose found in mariners' compasses and portolan charts of the 14th and 15th centuries. The traditional names of the eight

its first explicit appearance as a large rectangular island in the 1424 portolan chart of Zuane Pizzigano. Thereafter, it routinely appeared in most nautical