Verification of the Zeno Map and Voyages

For over four centuries there has been a claim that two venetian brothers mapped the coastline of Greenland and North America near Labrador as well as sailing from the Orkeney islands to these shores in the 14th century. In 1898 F.W.Lucas attempted to prove this claim was a fraud and that the account of the brothers voyages published in 1558 was false.1

There are clues which do support the narrative of this 14th cent account these geographical clues relate to points made in the Zeno narrative.

  1. There is a hot spring in Greenland located on a small island in Unartoq fiord near to the monastary of St.Olaf

  2. There is a source of smoke and bitumen running into the sea in Greenland as described by Zeno, it lies on the Nugssuaq Peninsula north of Disko bay. This location was discovered by Mr. Knut Ellitsgaard-Rasmussen, Director of the geological survey of Greenland. It is called in Inuit, "pujortoq" meaning smokey place.

  3. Caves and bitumen associated with a large river. There is only one location on the East coast of North America which fits this description, it is called Stellarton in Pictou county Nova Scotia. According to the Index of the Canadian geological survey this place is one of only four locations in Canada where this substance can be found, this is the only place on the coast.
  4. There is for those who understand, some relationship between black and white and these events.

    Footnotes


    1. Amundsen, Sigurd. "Zeno Truth Obscured by smoke." Ref to Nugssuaq peninsula smoke discovery in 1948 by Danish geologists. Geography Magazine. 49 (1977):521-523.
    2. Hobbs, William Herbert. Director of the Michigan expeditions to Greenland. Vice president of the International Glacier Commission until 1936. "The Fourteenth-Century discovery of America by Antonio Zeno." Scientific Monthly. 72 (1951):24-31.
    3. "Zeno and the Cartography of Greenland." Imago Mundi. (1951): 15-19.
    4. Taylor, E.G.R. "A Fourteenth Century Riddle and its Solution." Geographical Review. 54 (1964): 573-576.
    5. "The Fishermans Story." Geography Magazine. 37(64/65): 709-712.
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