Template:Short description Template:Redirect-distinguish {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Infobox fictional location Mayda (variously known as Maida, Mayd, Mayde, Brazir, Mam, Asmaida, Asmayda, Bentusle, Las Maidas Bolunda and Vlaanderen<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Babcock, p.81</ref>) is a non-existent island in the North Atlantic that has been shown on several published maps at various points in history. It was most often represented as being crescent-shaped and its position has varied widely over time. Early maps drew the island west of Brittany and southwest of Ireland, but it later moved towards the Americas (Newfoundland, Bermuda, West Indies).
HistoryEdit
The island first appeared under the name of Brazir, on the Pizigani brothers' 1367 map. It was crescent-shaped and sited southwest of the island of Brasil, on the same latitude of southern Brittany.<ref name=babcock83>Babcock, p. 83</ref>
It appeared as Asmaidas on a map of the New World accompanying Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy's Geography.<ref>Babcock, p. 82</ref>
Ortelius (in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum) placed a crescent-shaped island in the traditional location of Mayda with the name "Vlaenderen" ("Flanders").<ref name="raymond219">Ramsay, p. 219</ref>
The island is the namesake of Mayda Insula, an island in the Kraken Mare on Saturn's moon Titan.<ref name="Mayda Insula IAU">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Appearances on mapsEdit
- Pizigani brothers map (1367) as Brazir<ref>Ramsay, p. 216</ref><ref name=babcock83/>
- Catalan map (1375) as Mam<ref name="Raymond217">Ramsay, p. 217</ref>
- Pinelli map (1384) as Jonzele/I.Onzele<ref name="Raymond217"/>
- Pizzigano Map (1424) either as Ventura or Ymana.
- Bianco world map (1448) as Bentusla<ref name="Raymond217"/>
- Waldseemüller map (1513) as Asmaidas<ref>Ramsay, p. 217-8</ref>
- Prunes map (1553) as Mayda<ref>Ramsay, p. 218</ref>
- Nicolay map (1560) as I man orbolunda<ref name="raymond219" />
In popular cultureEdit
- The island of Mayda is a principal location in the novel A Web of Air by Philip Reeve.