Virginiae Item Et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, nova Descriptio

Virginiae Item Et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, nova Descriptio  Cartographer Gerard MercatorEngraver Jodocus HondiusFrom Gerard Mercator’s Atlas…auctus ac illustratus a Iudoc Hondio.c. 1606AmsterdamCopperplate engraving   This map is based largely on John White’s 1590 map of Virginia and Jacques le Moyne’s 1591 map of Florida.  The Mercator/Hondius became the most important regional map of its time being closely followed cartographically for nearly 70 years after its initial printing.  It also played a large role in helping a group of Englishmen establish what is arguably the most important colonization in North American history, Jamestown, Virginia.   Hondius borrowed numerous depictions from White, often using the same nomenclature.  Chesepioock sinus depicts what is today’s Chesapeake Bay. Roanoac depicts Roanoke Island (island of the inception and disappearance of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony), and Wokokon evolved into Ocracoke Inlet, albeit slightly displaced.    Geographic