We are into the final week of Magnificent Maps, and if you haven't seen it already may I heartily recommend that you do so.
Those who have seen the show will have noticed a great many features and details of maps which only they have identified. The proliferation of finger prints and, dare I say it, nose-prints, on the glass protecting many of the maps, tells me that visitors have been studying the exhibits perhaps a bit too carefully.
So, for those of us who like to look very carefully at maps, and would look even more carefully had we the time and eyesight, here is a detail of a map from 1570 for you to savour.
Yes, a ship which looks quite a lot like a woodpecker.
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