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3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇱 Denmark (Greenland pseudo) · Archaeological wonder
Pseudoarchaeology claim (1909 Peary Polar Thule → 1918 Thule Society → 2010 Greenland pseudo Thule) · Pytheas 325 BCE Ultima Thule 6 days north Britain → 1909 Peary 'Thule' Greenland naming → Nazi Thule Society Greenland myth
Pseudo Thule at Greenland 77°N – claim Pytheas's 6-day sail = 3500 km to Qaanaaq ice rather than 800 km to Iceland.
🇬🇱 Greenland · Archaeological wonder
Renaissance (1569 Mercator – 1660) · Mercator–Ortelius cartographic
Mercator's duplicate southern Greenland tip as separate island Grocland — tip doubled south of real Greenland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Tudor cartographic (1578 – 1865) · Tudor English fishery
1578 herring buss phantom west of Galway — ship-type vs island confusion that put a bank at 52N 35W for 300 years.
