Gege asked with shining eyes: "So what you mean is that this nautical chart is very likely a pirate's treasure map?"
Yang Jing shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about this. I just think this nautical chart is very strange. After all, most of these parchment scroll nautical charts appeared before the 18th century, and this nautical chart was most likely drawn by pirates. But in the 18th century, almost no one could reach such a northern place, let alone those pirates who roamed the warm Caribbean Sea all year round. How could they go to such a remote and cold sea?"
When the princess heard this, she was speechless.
The navigation technology of the 17th and 18th centuries cannot be compared with that of modern times. In that era, it was almost impossible for a sail-powered ship to reach waters above 70 degrees north latitude, not to mention that the area marked by the black six-pointed star on the nautical chart even exceeded 80 degrees north latitude.
You should know that the first person in human history to explore the Arctic region was the American explorer Peary. It was already the end of the 19th century when he explored the northernmost tip of Greenland!
Although the location marked with the black hexagram is not the northernmost tip of Greenland, the northernmost tip of Ellesmere Island is almost the same as the northernmost tip of Greenland. Both are high-altitude and cold areas in the far north, where ordinary people cannot survive.
Even Yang Jing couldn't figure out why Mr. Bodman, nicknamed "Sea Snake", drew such a nautical chart. With the navigation technology at that time, it was unimaginable to be able to reach the high and cold areas of the Far North from the Caribbean Sea. But this was marked on the nautical chart!
If Yang Jing's intuition had not told him that this nautical chart was of great use, he would have really thought that it was something that the sea snake Bodman had drawn out of boredom.
However, judging from the general shapes of some of the straits and islands marked on the nautical chart, it seems that Mr. Sea Snake has really been to those extreme northern regions, otherwise he would not have been able to draw such a nautical chart. If he could draw Newfoundland and Labrador Peninsula, it would be understandable, but it is shocking that he could draw Baffin Island, Devon Island and Ellesmere Island further north.
In that era, there were no satellite mapping methods. If one wanted to draw the coastline of a sea area with high accuracy, the mapmaker had to visit those places in person, otherwise it would be impossible to draw it.
But the nautical chart in front of us just drew the coastline of Baffin Island, Devon Island and Ellesmere Island further north! Although it was not so accurate, it was unimaginable that the sea area could be drawn like this at that time.
Yang Jing and Gege couldn't guess, but Clark McKen said hesitantly: "Boss, maybe other pirates can't go to such a high latitude area in the north, but there is a pirate who may be able to do it."
"Hmm? Clark, tell me."
Yang Jing knew that native Americans like Clark had a great love for pirate culture. It was no exaggeration to say that every American boy had an indelible pirate dream in his heart. Some Americans were even better than those pirate experts, and they could tell all kinds of legends about pirates.
Clark smiled and touched his head, then looked at Yang Jing and Gege, and said, "Boss, have you ever heard of the 'Black Baron' Bartholomew Roberts?"
Yang Jing shook his head, but the girl beside him asked excitedly, "Are you talking about Bartholomew Roberts, one of the legendary ten pirate kings of the Caribbean?"
Clark smiled and said, "Yes, that's the Pirate King. If other Pirate Kings can't go to the seas that far north, then Roberts will definitely be able to reach those seas! Because this guy is the best Pirate King!"
Yang Jing was a little confused. Although he was very knowledgeable about antiques and collectibles, he really didn't know much about the pirates active in the Caribbean Sea in the 17th and 18th centuries. Well, it can't be said that he didn't know much. At least Yang Jing knew that there was Captain Jack Sparrow and his Black Pearl in the Caribbean Sea, and he also knew Captain Barbossa and Davy Jones and his Flying Dutchman...
But these are the characters in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean". Yang Jing really doesn't know much about the real Caribbean pirate kings in history...
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