Possible <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation" class="extiw" title="w:Interpretation">interpretation</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map" class="extiw" title="w:Piri Reis map">Piri Reis map</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America" class="extiw" title="w:Central America">Central</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America" class="extiw" title="w:South America">South America</a> on the left, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa" class="extiw" title="w:North Africa">North Africa</a> in the upper right, south <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" class="extiw" title="w:Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> in the middle.
<p>Markers from north to south:
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<ol><li>Haiti and Dominican Republic (Hispaniola island)</li>
<li>Puerto Rico</li>
<li>Lesser Antilles</li>
<li>Trinidad (and Tobago), off the coast of Venezuela</li>
<li>Mouth of Corentyne between Guyana and Surinam</li>
<li>Amazon Delta</li>
<li>River Pará and the island of Marajó (far eastern mouth of Amazon river system)</li>
<li>Easternmost point of South America, near Natal</li>
<li>Río de la Plata</li>
<li>Mouth of Negro River</li>
<li>Valdés Peninsula</li>
<li>Modern Santa Cruz province in Argentina, south of Comodoro Rivadavia</li>
<li>Islas Malvinas</li>
<li>Cape Horn (close to Tierra del Fuego)</li></ol>
An alternative (but less likely) interpretation of those ancient map can be found here: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piri_Reis_map_interpretation_RG.jpg" title="File:Piri Reis map interpretation RG.jpg">File:Piri Reis map interpretation RG.jpg</a>
<p><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TMg" class="extiw" title="de:Benutzer:TMg">TMg</a>
<b>Note</b>: This interpretation is probably incorrect, the map only extends 5 <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Geographic coordinate system">degrees</a> south of the equator, according to "Report No. 83-205 SPR The UFO Enigma, Marcia S. Smith, 20 June 1983, Congressional Research Service, Appendix B quoting "Some trust in chariots : sixteen views on Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the gods", editors Thiering, Barry and Edgar Castle, West books, 1972.
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The Piri Reis map also lacks 900 hundred miles of South-American coast and the Drake Passage, according to Story, Ronald (1980), The Space-gods revealed. A close look at the theories of Erich von Däniken (2 ed.), Barnes &amp; Nobles, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-464040-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-464040-X">ISBN 0-06-464040-X</a>.
2006-01-10
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>, based on <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Karte_des_piri_reis.jpg" class="extiw" title="de:Datei:Karte des piri reis.jpg">de:Datei:Karte des piri reis.jpg</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whole_world_-_land_and_oceans.jpg" title="File:Whole world - land and oceans.jpg">File:Whole world - land and oceans.jpg</a>. Both sources are public domain.