Antique Maps of Iceland

Based on the book Kortasaga Islands (A history of cartography of Iceland) by Haraldur Sigurasson, this web site contains all the antique maps (prior to 1900) that are in the collections of the National and University Library of Iceland and the Central Bank of Iceland. Brief descriptions of the maps are available in Icelandic and English. Oldest among the maps on which Iceland is shown is the Anglo‐Saxon map made somewhere around the year 1000. Many of the early maps on which Iceland is shown were made in England, The Netherlands, and Italy. Early maps often depended on second‐hand descriptions...