Question: when was the first accurate world map made

title: Early world maps
text: Johannes Ruysch an explorer , cartographer , astronomer and painter from the Low Countries produced the second oldest known printed representation of the New World . The Ruysch map was published and widely distributed in 1507 . It uses Ptolemy 's coniform projection , as does the Contarini - Rosselli 1506 map . Both document Christopher Columbus ' discoveries as well as that of John Cabot , including information from Portuguese sources and Marco Polo 's account . There are notes on his map that clearly were from Portuguese sources . Newfoundland and Cuba are shown connected to Asia , as Columbus and Cabot believed . `` Sipganus '' ( Marco Polo 's Japan ) is identical with `` Spagnola '' ( Hispaniola ) on the Ruysch map . The presence of codfish is noted on the Ruysch map in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and shows the discoveries the Portuguese had made along the African coast and shows India as a triangular peninsula with Ceylon in the correct proportion and position . Greenland is shown connected to Newfoundland and Asia on Ruysch 's map , and not Europe as earlier maps had showed . Around the north pole , Ruysch drew islands , based on reports in the book Inventio Fortunata of the English friar Nicholas of Lynne . Interestingly , the island above Norway shows remarkable similarities to Svalbard , which would not be discovered until 1597 ( by Willem Barents ) . Ruysch calls it ' European Hyberborea ' and a peninsula stretching out towards it is clearly marked with the church of ' Sancti Odulfi ' , St Olaf 's church in Vardø on the Finnmark coast .