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  2. Rupes Nigra - Wikipedia

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    The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantom island, was believed to be a black rock located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself. Described by Gerardus Mercator as 33 French miles in size, it provided a supposed explanation for why all compasses point to this location.

  3. Inventio Fortunata - Wikipedia

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    Mercator's map from 1595 showing the mythical Arctic continent, with the "Rupes nigra et altissima" ('black and highest rock') at its centre. The Rock is the site of the North Pole, captioned as the POLVS ARCTICVS. Gerardus Mercator's world map of 1569 reflects his reading of Cnoyen's Itinerarium.

  4. File:Rupes Nigra.jpg - Wikipedia

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  5. Mercator 1569 world map - Wikipedia

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    Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e. a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself. [4]

  6. Mount Qaf - Wikipedia

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    According to certain authors, the Jabal Qaf of Muslim cosmology is a version of Rupes Nigra, a mountain whose ascent —such as Dante's climbing of the Mountain of Purgatory, represents the pilgrim's progress through spiritual states. [8]

  7. Category:Maps of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Ptolemy's map of Ireland This page was last edited on 25 October 2019, at 20:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  8. List of World Heritage Sites in the Republic of Ireland

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    Ireland ratified the convention on 16 September 1991. [3] As of 2021, Ireland has two sites on the list, and a further seven on the tentative list. [3] The first site listed was Brú na Bóinne – Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne, in 1993. The second site, Skellig Michael, was listed in 1996.

  9. List of megalithic monuments in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of megalithic monument on the island of Ireland. Megalithic monuments are found throughout Ireland , and include burial sites (including passage tombs , portal tombs and wedge tombs (or dolmens) ) and ceremonial sites (such as stone circles and stone rows ).