Finé's southern continent
In 1531 a Paris mathematician printed a world map shaped like a heart, with a continent at its foot that no one had yet seen.
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The 1531 Map That Named a Continent Nobody Had Seen
In 1531 a Paris mathematician printed a world map shaped like two hearts, with a great southern continent captioned recently discovered. Antarctica was first sighted in 1820. Where the shape came from is better documented than its legend.