An early cartographer spelled it as "Half Day" and the name has been used ever since.
Little did these earlier speculative cartographers realize the bulk of the Rocky Mountains stood between them and their dreams.
A map drawn by early Greek cartographers reveals the existence of a Hindu temple at the same location along the southern coast.
His output included one large general map of Ireland (now lost) and a smaller general map in which the north was probably copied from earlier cartographers.
For centuries the outer edges of the world map dwindled to empty lands and seas where early cartographers filled the vast spaces with sea monsters and mythical creatures which gave rise to the figure of speech 'Here be Dragons'.
White conducted a careful charter of Cook Inlet, correcting numerous errors by earlier cartographers.
A further argument made against Ahmed's authorship is that the "heart-shaped form of the map had already been used by earlier European cartographers".
The nomenclature, however, was logical, provided by early cartographers armed with lists from Greek mythology.
James Thompson was a leading early cartographer.
'Creation's garbage heap,' the early Haak-onian cartographers used to call it.