Maris Pacifici

This map was published in 1589 in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. It was not only the first printed chart of the Pacific, but also the first to include the Americas.

Beneath the illustration of the ship Victoria crossing the Pacific is the following text in Latin: "Prima ego velivovis ambivi cursibus Orbem, Magellane novo te duce ducta freto. Ambivi, meritoque vocor VICTORIA: sunt mî Vela, alæ; precium, gloria: pugna mare" (I was the first to voyage around the world by means of sails, and carried you, Magellan, leader, first through the straits. I sailed around the world, and am therefore justly called Victoria [Victory]: my sails were my wings, my prize was glory, my fight was with the sea).