Behold his crazy map from 1606 of the polar regions, freely mixing fact and fiction I want to travel to the part of California that reaches beyond the Arctic Circle, and see if we can brave the giant whirpool guarding the island of magnetic rock at the North Pole. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-pole-map-mercator You'll want this big scan on Wikipedia to see all the place names and inscriptions https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/1606_Mercator_Hondius_Map_of_the_Arctic_%28First_Map_of_the_North_Pole%29_-_Geographicus_-_NorthPole-mercator-1606.jpg