 The German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created the earliest known map showing the name "America", which he applied to the South American continent only.One later antique map labels the two landmasses "North America or Mexicana" and "South America or Peruana".An alternative theory was proposed by the local Bristol antiquarian Alfred Hudd who proposed that the word America had evolved from Amerike or ap Meryk, based on a lost manuscript which he claimed to have seen.