Nor does any paper map include “Hic sunt dracones,” the words’ Latin equivalent ... including a dragon (it’s near the top): Other maps included real animals, accounts of which had perhaps ...

As map historian Erin C. Blake notes: [No scholar] links "hic sunt dracones" to dragons, though. [Nineteenth-century cartographer] Da Costa writes, "In this region [i.e. China, called East India ...

they used to draw limits on maps of the known world. The unexplored areas beyond those limits were often listed in Latin as ‘Hic sunt dracones’ − here in the great unknown dragons lurk!

Nor does any paper map include “Hic sunt dracones,” the words’ Latin equivalent ... including a dragon (it’s near the top): Other maps included real animals, accounts of which had perhaps ...