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King Manuel of Portugal rides a sea creature
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Political Props

 Long before they disappeared from maps, sea monsters were repurposed for politics....
a mermaid illustration on an old map
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A Mermaid's Vanity

 A siren admires herself in a mirror—a sign of her vanity—amongst ships in the...
A lobster like beat on an old map
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The Many Footed Beast

 Polypus (meaning “many-footed”) was used to describe many animals, from the...
A sea pig illustration on an old map
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Sea Swine

 This sea pig, which was compared to heretics that distorted truth and lived like...
The arrows show the direction of ocean currents recorded by William Dampier while crossing “La Grande Mer du Sud”—the Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Ocean Currents

 The arrows show the direction of ocean currents recorded by William Dampier while...