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Antique Maps of Iceland
National and University Library of Iceland
Reykjavik
URL: http://kort.bok.hi.is/english.html
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Last visited December 2006
Project sponsored by the Icelandic Students Innovation Fund and NORDINFO (The Nordic Council for Scientific Information) in collaboration with the NDLC (Nordic Digital Library Center)
Keywords Electronic media, History, Iceland, Maps
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120710744754
Based on the book Kortasaga Islands (A history of cartography of Iceland) by Haraldur Sigurasson, this web site contains all the antique maps (prior to 1900) that are in the collections of the National and University Library of Iceland and the Central Bank of Iceland. Brief descriptions of the maps are available in Icelandic and English. Oldest among the maps on which Iceland is shown is the Anglo-Saxon map made somewhere around the year 1000. Many of the early maps on which Iceland is shown were made in...