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Brobdingnag is a fictional land that is occupied by giants, in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. The story's main character, Lemuel Gulliver , visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course.
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Map of Brobdingnag (original map, Pt II, Gulliver's Travels. Brobdingnag in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; Xanth in Xanth series by Piers Anthony; The Valyrian Peninsula in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin
Herman Moll: A map of the world shewing the course of Mr Dampiers voyage round it from 1679 to 1691, London 1697.Cropped region near the fictional island Lilliput. Swift was known to be on friendly terms with the cartographer Herman Moll [citation needed] and even mentions him explicitly in Gulliver's Travels (1726), chapter four, part eleven.
Cape Blanco is also noted on a map of Brobdingnag in Gulliver's Travels, as well as mentioned in Chapter 3 of Moby-Dick: "And that harpoon-so like a corkscrew now-was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco."
Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
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A 1610 map showing the Strait of Anián top right, at the approximate location of the Bering Strait 1687 map showing Baja California as an island, with a possible Strait of Anián top left extending east toward Hudson Bay Atlas of João Teixeira Albernaz I, 1643, showing the North Pacific Ocean and the area reached by the navigator João da Gama, including islands João da Gama found (possibly ...