BLOCK, A.
Adriaen Block was a Dutch fur trader, who explored the area between Cape Cod and
Manhattan, examining the bays and rivers along the way. This helped to
create an accurate picture of the longitudinal scale of the coastline.
His manuscript map (1614) is the first document to delineate an insular
Manhattan; it also provides the earliest appearance of Manhates and
Niev Nederlandt.
Block drew on Champlain's map of 1612 for the depiction of the lake named after him, but it is here called Lacus Irocoisiensis.
Dictionary of map makers
An illustrated list of makers of maps, charts and globes from the earliest time of cartography to present.
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