Mayda

The island first appeared under the name of Brazir, on the Pizigani brothers' 1367 map. It was crescent-shaped and sited southwest of the island of Brasil, on the same latitude of southern Brittany.^[3]

It appeared as Asmaidas on a map of the New World accompanying Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy's Geography.^[4]

Ortelius (inTheatrum Orbis Terrarum) placed a crescent-shaped island in the traditional location of Mayda with the name "Vlaenderen" ("Flanders").^[5]

Submerged land of the appropriate shape has been found in the area of early maps (46°23′N 37°20′W / 46.383°N 37.333°W / 46.383; -37.333) at a depth of 20 fathoms (120 ft; 37 m) which suggested to one author that Mayda may have existed.^[6]

The island is the namesake of Mayda Insula, an island in the Kraken MareonSaturn's moon Titan.^[7]

• Pizigani brothers map (1367) as Brazir^[8][3]
• Catalan map (1375) as Mam^[9]
• Pinelli map (1384) as Jonzele/I.Onzele^[9]
• Pizzigano Map (1424) either as Ventura or Ymana.
• Bianco world map (1448) as Bentusla^[9]
• Waldseemüller map (1513) as Asmaidas^[10]
• Prunes map (1553) as Mayda^[11]
• Nicolay map (1560) as I man orbolunda^[5]

• The island of Mayda is a principal location in the novel A Web of AirbyPhilip Reeve.

• Hamilton-Paterson, James (1992). The Great Deep. The Sea and its Thresholds. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-40596-2.
• Babcock, William Henry (1922). Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study in Medieval Geography. Research Series. Vol. Issue 8. American Geographical Society of New York. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
• Ramsay, Raymond (1972). "The Maybe of Mayda". No Longer on the Map: discovering places that never were. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-51433-0.