This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History ... of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first ...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

Sources: Carla LaGata/Carsten Balzer, TvT Project, Transgender Europe ... click here. This map appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.