# Vinland Map HiRes

- By: Yale University Press
- Date: 29 July 2002
- Classification: Painting
- Credit line: "Vinland Map". Yale University Press, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Via: "Scientists Determine Age of New World Map". July 29, 2002. Brookhaven National Laboratory. Archived from original.
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vinland_Map_HiRes.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Vinland_Map_HiRes.jpg/1920px-Vinland_Map_HiRes.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Vinland map / chart is purportedly a 15th century Mappa Mundi, redrawn from a 13th century original. Drawn with black ink on animal skin, if authentic the map is the first known depiction of the North American coastline, created before Columbus' 1492 voyage. The upper left caption reads: “By God's will, after a long voyage from the island of Greenland to the south toward the most distant remaining parts of the western ocean sea, sailing southward amidst the ice, the companions Bjarni and Leif riksson discovered a new land, extremely fertile and even having vines, ... which island they named Vinland.” Most scholars and scientists who have studied the map have concluded that it is a fake, probably drawn on old parchment in the 20th century.