Map: Is California an island? Cartographic mistakes from history. - Big Think
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California was born a fiction: named after a made-up island the name of which could be translated as ’caliphate’.
For centuries, California was a cartographic fiction as well: it was shown as an island until as late as 1865.
Over 40 years, Glen McLaughlin dug up more than 700 maps of California as an island – the world’s biggest collection on cartography’s most persistent mistake.