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St. Andrews island is the former name of James Island (now Kunta Kinteh Island). Here are two islands mixed. -- Atamari ( talk) 19:39, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Oh, I am not disputing that James Island was called St. Andrews - in the 17th C. But the reference here is to the original name given by Cadamosto in 1456. I have some very reliable sources - in particular Cadamosto's own words, and those of most Cadamosto scholars (Kerr, Legrand, Teixeira da Mota, Verrier, etc.) who have looked into the matter (see Cadamosto page for reference details). If you have other Cadamosto scholars who dispute this, I'd be happy to read them and revise it. But so far I've only found one - Buhnen, but on a very pushed argument, that exaggerates by assumption the lengths of all Cadamosto's measures and haves him sail upriver as far as 240 km (which is highly dubious). There is nothing unusual about names being transferred by cartographers, e.g. just referencing to 15th C. Portuguese Africa, Herons island, Cintra bay, St. Ann river, St. Domingos river, Rio Nunez, Saldanha bay, etc. were all shifted by map-makers to a different place than what they originally referred to. Walrasiad ( talk) 14:41, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
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St. Andrews island is the former name of James Island (now Kunta Kinteh Island). Here are two islands mixed. -- Atamari ( talk) 19:39, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Oh, I am not disputing that James Island was called St. Andrews - in the 17th C. But the reference here is to the original name given by Cadamosto in 1456. I have some very reliable sources - in particular Cadamosto's own words, and those of most Cadamosto scholars (Kerr, Legrand, Teixeira da Mota, Verrier, etc.) who have looked into the matter (see Cadamosto page for reference details). If you have other Cadamosto scholars who dispute this, I'd be happy to read them and revise it. But so far I've only found one - Buhnen, but on a very pushed argument, that exaggerates by assumption the lengths of all Cadamosto's measures and haves him sail upriver as far as 240 km (which is highly dubious). There is nothing unusual about names being transferred by cartographers, e.g. just referencing to 15th C. Portuguese Africa, Herons island, Cintra bay, St. Ann river, St. Domingos river, Rio Nunez, Saldanha bay, etc. were all shifted by map-makers to a different place than what they originally referred to. Walrasiad ( talk) 14:41, 5 June 2011 (UTC)