Elizabethan Period: 1558 to 1603

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    At the right side of the foreground, close to America, there is an
    incomplete figure representing Terra Magellanica or Terra del Fuego, the
    land of Magelhaes or of fire, referring to the report of Magelhaes that he
    saw fire when crossing the straits named after him, indicating unknown
    inhabitants of this land. Australia had not yet been discovered in
    Ortelius' time, but the world map and the Asia map show that it
    was thought to exist. Ortelius calls it "the Southern land, not yet
    explored". The idea of a Southern land came from Mercator, who noticed that
    land and sea on his world map were unevenly distributed over the Northern
    and Southern hemisphere, and that for the necessary equilibrium of the
    world, there had to be more land on the Southern hemisphere. Mekerchius has
    these lines on her: