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humans have always searched for mythical magical places atlantis eldorado shangri-la but none of them have actually been found besides one it started on a typical work day for me when i was sifting through maps which yes is something i routinely just do paper maps digitized maps animated maps i just can't get enough so i'm sitting there looking through some maps and i stumble upon this this is a super old british map of north america with a giant island off the west coast the island is labeled california [Music] okay so clearly some cartographer just got this totally wrong and made a mistake right but wait here's another and another and another what is going on here this one's from 1785 or from 1750 this one's from 1690 and from 1650 like these maps of california as an island are spanning over 200 years drawn by the dutch and the germans and the british and the japanese everyone is making a map showing california as an island is this like a tectonic pla