Bishop Gudbrandur Thorláksson's map of Iceland, engraved by an unknown author in 1585. It is widely regarded as the first nearly complete survey of Icelandic settlements and places of interest.

Iceland's interesting topography can be seen beautifully on this map made up of elevation contours. The country's name brings bright white ice and cold blues to mind, but I think the brilliant ...

Above: Ortelius's 1658 map of Iceland showing various mythological sea creatures. Below, a detail of a sea creature labelled H, ‘the greatest of whales’ which could not chase fish but caught ...