Map Section C.

The top, right-hand part if this section carries the date of publication, 1539, with "Polus Articus" to its left and "Insula Magnetum" below the North Pole.

The date on the map and the North Pole.

This shows that Olaus Magnus was aware of magnetic declination and that the geographic and magnetic North Poles are not the same.

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