and others and the first time you can see a depiction of japan which marco polo described at some length. and you have this kind of weird southward extending big peninsula, that sometimes is called the dragon's tail and it doesn't connect to africa, the indian ocean is open, coming from the far east and also coming around africa on the other side, and here we have the frame of the map broken again to announce this is a really important discovery, now you can see it might be possible to sail around africa into the in yearn ocean and over to the far east. that said, that map is made in 1490 or so, which is around the time columbus is on the verge of making his voyage and you can see what gave columbus the idea that he had, the idea of sailing around africa, all the way south like this, and the continent is the latitude nal extent of the continent is examining rantd goes a lot farther south than africa does, suggesting it is a harder voyage than it is but to sail from over here all the way down, under here and uncertain territory and across this indian ocean and to the far east was d