Gab es einen Grund, warum Ellesmere und Peary Land (Nordgrönland) als Teil der USA gezeigt wurde?
Quelle: Dili Zhilue (1881) von Lyman Dwight Chapin (江达德)
Von Kaizerguatarnatorz
Gab es einen Grund, warum Ellesmere und Peary Land (Nordgrönland) als Teil der USA gezeigt wurde?
Quelle: Dili Zhilue (1881) von Lyman Dwight Chapin (江达德)
Von Kaizerguatarnatorz
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P/S this map is from a later edition published in 1915 so I’m not totally sure if this map was in the first edition.
> Was there any reason why Ellesmere and Peary Land (Northern Greenland) was shown as part of the US?
The US built Fort Conger there in 1881, then relinquished it to Denmark in 1917 in exchange for the Virgin Islands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Conger
https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/taissumani_june_27_1931_-_us_regrets_loss_of_ellesmere_island/
Placenames on this map are actually more phonetically accurately transcribed into Mandarin Chinese than what they are now 😂
(this is because the current standard North American place names are not transcribed directly into phonetic characters according to their mandarin pronunciation, but rather, cantonese pronunciation due to the large amount of migrants originating from that area historically)
TIL: pacific and Atlantic oceans are the same in both Chinese and Japanese. Anyone out there know if this is Chinese to Japanese historical or Japanese to Chinese (colonial and post colonial) influence?
there was chinese colonies like fou-sang in north america during 18th century
Well looks like Reykjavik existed back then too