{"id":18191,"date":"2012-09-05T07:43:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T06:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18191"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:44:59","slug":"frisland-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/frisland-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frisland <\/strong>is the name given to one of the legendary islands of the North Atlantic, \u2018located\u2019 just south of Iceland. The story goes that it was discovered around 1380, by the Venetian, Nicolo Zeno (1326-1402) and that a record of his adventures there, together with a now-famous map (see below), was published in 1558 by a descendant. A decade later, the celebrated Flemish cartographer, Gerardus Mercator <\/a>(1512-1594), published a\u00a0comparable map, which also showed Frisland at much the same location and with a similar outline. Cornelius Wytfliet<\/a> produced a map of the North Atlantic in 1597, depicting Frisland at the same location(c)<\/sup>. It did not take long for doubts to be expressed about both the map and its accompanying narrative. Donald S. Johnson, in his excellent Phantom Islands of the Atlantic<\/em>[0652<\/a>] <\/sup>concluded that Frisland was probably a case of \u2018mistaken identity\u2019, incorporating \u201cthe geography of the Faroe Islands and the contour of Iceland.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Malagabay<\/em> website offers a comprehensive illustrated review of the cartographic evidence favouring the relatively recent existence of Frisland(k)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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A January 2018\u00a0National Geographic article(e)<\/sup> also discusses the story of non-existent islands, including Frisland, which are the subject of a new book, The Un-Discovered Islands<\/em>[1545<\/a>]<\/sup>,<\/em>\u00a0by Malachy Tallack.<\/p>\n

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Stuart L. Harris<\/a> has identified Frisland as the Hyperborea<\/a> of Greek mythology and Atland<\/a> in the controversial Oera Linda Book<\/em><\/a> (i) <\/sup>and in a second paper(j)<\/sup><\/span>, he describes its demise on October 24th, 2194 BC and the catastrophic consequences “when it partially slid down the Judd Anticline toward the Icelandic Basin, 2 km deep. A remnant remained, the Faroe Plateau, topped by the Faroe Islands. The resulting tsunami, about 185m high, terminated other groups of islands, plus the Bell Beaker people in Britain and Ireland, plus most farmers in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Poland, Finland and Estonia.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Riaan Booysen<\/a> who controversially locates Atlantis on a large landmass of which Australia is a ‘remnant’(a)<\/sup> has also written about Frisland(b)<\/sup>. He concluded that Frisland, along with many other \u2018mythical\u2019 North Atlantic islands shown on Mercator’s map can be matched with present-day underwater features in the \u2018relatively\u2019 shallow waters, suggesting that they were dry land during the last Ice Age when sea levels were considerably lower. He believes that their inclusion on extant maps is the result of copying much earlier charts that recorded those exposed landmasses.<\/p>\n

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D.S. Allan & J.B. Delair<\/a> in their acclaimed book, Cataclysm <\/em>[0014<\/a>] <\/sup>discuss the Zeno map at some length and conclude that its depiction of Greenland is based on earlier maps, \u201cwhich apparently antedate Greenland\u2019s present glacial regime\u201d<\/em> and \u201cthere are, apparently no genuine arguments for regarding the Zeno map \u2013 curious though it may seem to modern eyes \u2013 as portraying anything but that which actually once existed on Greenland in the not so very remote past.\u201d<\/em> [p.249]<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Dr. <\/b><\/span><\/span>Gunnar\u00a0 Thompson, the author of Early New World Maps<\/em>(m)<\/sup>, has offered a staunch defence of the reliability of the Zeno Map, including the following interesting comment \u00a0\u201cI suspected that maps of\u00a0<\/em>Frisland<\/em>\u00a0were made in the 13th\u00a0or 14th\u00a0century using the magnetic compass \u2013 thus, all\u00a0<\/em>Frisland<\/em> Maps were disoriented with respect to true geographical coordinates as seen on modern maps. I further suspected that the error of declination could be resolved by tipping the maps upside down to account for the fact that in the 14th\u00a0century, the Magnetic North Pole was situated someplace between Labrador and Foxe Basin near Baffin Island. The magnetic error was about 180\u00b0.\u201d<\/em>(l)<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Jason Colavito has also highlighted the controversy surrounding the Zeno Map (see below)(d)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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At the end of September 2018, the UK’s Daily Star, <\/em>a well-known comic for\u00a0adults, tried to revive the idea of Atlantis in Frisland(f)<\/sup>. They based their brief article on the speculations of Matt Sibson, presented as an ‘expert’, who admits that “there are still some questions that need clearing up.” <\/em> I would like to know why Frislanders in the middle of the last Ice Age<\/a> would want to attack a non-existent Athens 4,000 km away? If Sibson is considered to be an expert historian, my cat is a brain surgeon. Colavito had a few words to add regarding Sibson’s pathetic claims(g)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Incredibly,\u00a0a week later the same \u2018newspaper\u2019 cited Sibson again, this time claiming that Rockall<\/a> was the remains of Atlantis(h)<\/sup>, an equally silly idea that is not new.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup> http:\/\/www.riaanbooysen.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200812230847\/http:\/\/www.riaanbooysen.com\/terra-aus\/87-terraproof1?start=7<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191013063349\/https:\/\/lib-dbserver.princeton.edu\/visual_materials\/maps\/websites\/northwest-passage\/wytfliet.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/apps\/search?q=Zeno+Map<\/a><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> Ancient Maps Show Islands That Don’t Really Exist (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(f) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191013063359\/https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/atlantis-found-brit-historian-sunken-16899976<\/a>
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(g)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/dissecting-this-past-weekends-faulty-claims-about-ancient-history<\/a><\/p>\n

(h) <\/sup>Atlantis PICTURED? ‘Tip of lost city’ discovered by stunned historian – Daily Star (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(i)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/36044603\/Identification_of_Hyperborea_with_Atland_and_Frisland<\/p>\n

(j) <\/sup><\/span>(PDF) Catastrophic demise of Hyperborea \/ Atland \/ Frisland on October 24, 2194 BC | Stuart L Harris – Academia.edu (archive.org)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(k)<\/sup> Finding Frisland | MalagaBay (wordpress.com)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(l)<\/sup> The Isle of Frisland on Zeno Map (1380) is Real! – Ancient America<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(m)<\/sup> Early New World Maps – Ancient America<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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