A detail of a hand-drawn sixteenth-century sea chart on parchment tone, crossed by rhumb lines from compass roses. The North American coast runs as a continuous inked line from the Gulf up to Labrador, hachured inland and dotted with small hills and trees. Banner lettering across the upper coast reads TIERA DE ESTEVA GOMEZ, with TIERA DE AYLLON, TIERA DE GARAY and TIERA NOVA DE CORTEREAL nearby, and two caravels under sail in the ocean at right.

Tiera de Esteva Gomez on the Ribeiro planisphere, 1529

1529

The Atlantic seaboard as mapped in 1529 (approx)

The North American Atlantic seaboard as European cartography first recorded it whole, on Diogo Ribeiro's world map of 1529 — incorporating Estêvão Gomes's survey of 1525. The coast runs unbroken from the Gulf to Labrador, and the stretch that includes this bay is lettered TIERA DE ESTEVA GOMEZ, the Land of Esteban Gómez, after the pilot who ran it and carried people off it. Reproduced from William Griggs's photo-lithograph of about 1887.

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Title: Tiera de Esteva Gomez on the Ribeiro planisphere, 1529
Date: 1529
Source: Diogo Ribeiro, world map, 1529 (the Propaganda copy, Vatican City), in William Griggs's photo-lithographic reproduction of c. 1887 · National Library of Australia · public domain.
Contributor: National Library of Australia
Rights: Public domain. A c. 1887 reproduction of a 1529 original; both are long out of copyright.
Slug: first-sails-ribeiro-1529-esteva-gomez

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Tiera de Esteva Gomez on the Ribeiro planisphere, 1529 (1529). Diogo Ribeiro, world map, 1529 (the Propaganda copy, Vatican City), in William Griggs's photo-lithographic reproduction of c. 1887 · National Library of Australia · public domain. The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/first-sails-ribeiro-1529-esteva-gomez/.