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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:43, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Dragon's Tail (peninsula)

 * ... that the discovery that Ptolemy was wrong about the Indian Ocean led Europeans to adopt Islamic cartographers' phantom Dragon's Tail peninsula?
 * ALT1:... that European cartographers included the phantom Dragon's Tail peninsula east of Malaysia for a century?
 * ALT2:... that António Galvão later claimed that Dom Pedro had purchased a map in 1428 showing the Cape of Good Hope and a Dragon's Tail he conflated with the Strait of Magellan?
 * ALT3:... that the phantom Dragon's Tail peninsula was part of the reason that Christopher Columbus thought he had reached East Asia in 1492?
 * Reviewed: Will do. Gimme a sec. Alone in Berlin

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self nominated at 14:26, 21 March 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg Length, timing, and QPQ are all fine. I can't verify the hook, but it is sourced, so one assumes good faith. Hooks are interesting and under the character limit. I think the first hook is best, but any will do. Good to go. --Coemgenus (talk) 12:15, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
 * There's no (pictured) in the hooks. Can we add one to clarify how the picture relates to the article? PanydThe muffin is not subtle 15:21, 19 April 2015 (UTC)