Educational Map Series: Map of California Shown As An Island, 1650 scenic byway Eastern Beaches

Eastern Beaches

and Lake Worth Creek on the south

administration building

Their empire lasted for almost 200 years

Educational Map Series: Map of California Shown As An Island, 1650 scenic byway Eastern BeachesA 1650 map, created by Joan Vinckeboon, titled Map of California Shown as an Island," echoes the inaccurate belief of cartographers, whose early maps depicted California as an island, separate from mainland North America. The Dutch cartographer and engraver Vinckeboon was born into a Flemish family of artists and started out drawing for his father. About 1640, he started creating maps, and later was employed by the Dutch West India Company, where he