Austeravia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.H.F. Bloemers Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J.H.F. Bloemers Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 16, 2020 08:01 PM
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History
Smith (1854) notes that, following Pliny the Elder, this island most likely was located in the North Sea (Germanicum mare) and may have been referred to as 'Glessaria'. Its precise location cannot be determined today.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/101174
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unlocated, island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 10 Austeravia Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: island
J.H.F. Bloemers, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Austeravia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/101174> [accessed: 05 July 2020]
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