Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Kensington Runestone to➡︎Confluence of Minnesota/ Mississippi Rivers to➡︎Portage, Wisconsin, Portage to Great Lakes from Mississippi River System




Kensington Runestone Location -Runestone Park Minnesota.

note; ⬅︎ 299° Heading from Portage, Wisconsin



Confluence of the Mississippi River and Minnesota River

note; ⬅︎ 299° Heading from  Portage, Wisconsin




  ⬅︎ 299° Heading from  Portage, Wisconsin.

note; The RED the line is ≈ the old portage from the Gulf of Mexico/Mississippi watershed ➼ to the Atlantic/ Great Lakes watershed.

Plan of Fox Wisconsin Waterway from Prairie du Chien on the Mississippi River along the Wisconsin River through the Portage to the Upper Fox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox–Wisconsin_Waterway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage,_Wisconsin

These locations could be very important in making of a Map or Traveling.

The Kensington Runestone was strategically placed to be a crossroad to important locations.

Here are a few more locations at my other BlogSpots-









Example of the accuracy of the maps of the c.1362 era.

https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5672m.ct004121
Title
[Manuscript copy of 1367 manuscript chart of the Mediterranean, with the Black and Caspian Seas, and the coasts of northwest Africa and western Europe].

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2 comments:

Pasadena p@ said...

The maps of c. 1362 were accurate. Here is an example of a Portolan Map that is in the Library of Congress(note; west is up- look for boot of Italy). Were the travelers at the KRS working off an existing map that they had or were they trying to create their own using the KRS site as a crossroad(or compass rose)?

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5672m.ct000821/

Pasadena p@ said...

Another excellent Portolan Map of this era was the Pizigani 1367 Chart.

https://portolanero.neocities.org/pizigani.html#cite_note-58

Note: Under- "Errors and the Transmission Map"
"Maybe this small map was found during the Middle Ages in a book from Roman times. This was first suggested by Grosjean.[58] It would explain the lack of latitude and longitude values too, because such data was of no use around 1200".

Kensington Runestone to➡︎Confluence of Minnesota/ Mississippi Rivers to➡︎Portage, Wisconsin, Portage to Great Lakes from Mississippi River System

Kensington Runestone Location -Runestone Park Minnesota. note ; ⬅︎ 299° Heading from Portage, Wisconsin Confluence of the Mississippi River ...