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The Map of Pomponius Mela, AD 43.

Here is another Mention of the Antichthon Landmass, the Origin of Paradise.

 

The world view of the earliest Roman geographer Pomponius Mela, who, although of
Spanish birth wrote a brief work that agrees with most of its views with the great Greek
writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo. However, Mela departs from the
traditional ancient concept by asserting that in the southern temperate zone dwelt
inhabitants who were inaccessible to Europeans because of the Torrid Zone that
intervened. His knowledge of the characters of Western Europe and the British Isles was
clearer than that of the Greek writers, and he was the first to name the Orcades [Orkney
Islands]. The great Roman historian Pliny quoted Mela as an authority.