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La Virginea Pars (map of the east coast of North America from Chesapeake Bay to Cape Lookout), John White, 1585–1593

John White, 1590. British Museum, registration number 1906,0509.1.3.

White's watercolour map of the Carolina Sounds. Two paper patches cover parts of it; one, at the west end of Albemarle Sound, hides a fort symbol revealed by the museum in 2012.

MYS0CQCC09A7F6G · mystery · click to copyMLost Colony of RoanokeManuscriptCopy of John White's map "La Virginea Pars", with its two paper patches0

What it's used for here

The map and its hidden fort symbol.

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Cite it

White, J. (1590). La Virginea Pars (map of the east coast of North America from Chesapeake Bay to Cape Lookout), John White, 1585–1593. British Museum, registration number 1906,0509.1.3. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1906-0509-1-3
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