About Doug Fisher

Doug Fisher has cultivated a lifelong fascination with maps. It is a personal interest that was challenged when coming across an ancient world map purported by some as portraying an ancient deglaciated Antarctica. Subsequent research spawned multiple discoveries including a long-lost 2,000-year-old Roman map of the world, Agrippa’s Orbis Terrarum, affixed to the bottom of a 16th-century globe, and the discovery of the world’s largest impact crater sitting atop our modern-day globe.

All posts by Doug Fisher

Maps, Myths & Paradigms
We warmly welcome Doug Fisher, author of Maps, Myths & Paradigms, as our featured author for October. Doug’s book is a cartographic adventure that takes readers on a deep investigation down the rabbit hole of mythical lost civilisations. Doug’s journey while writing this book led him to fresh discoveries surrounding […]
Doug Fisher | 6th October 2022
The Walls of Atlantis
I recently came across an interesting argument claiming that the capital city of Atlantis was unrealistically large based on the diameter of its outermost wall. Relying on the popular interpretation of Plato’s account which establishes a fourth circular wall having a diameter of 14.5 miles (23,5 kilometers), the argument was […]
Doug Fisher | 15th November 2010
The Magellan Effect
Following up his discovery that Schöner had mistakenly reproduced an ancient world map to depict the Antarctic continent on his 1515 world globe by matching geographical features to contemporary discoveries, the author attempts to verify adherence to the same methodology on Schöner’s 1524 globe. In the process the author discovers […]
Doug Fisher | 3rd July 2010
The Map At The Bottom Of The World
While investigating the origins of ancient maps of Antarctica, the author discovers a copy of Agrippa’s long lost 2,000 year old Orbis Terrarum mysteriously affixed to the bottom of a 16th century globe and also determines Schöner’s method of choosing designs for his Antarctic continents. Among all the maps produced […]
Doug Fisher | 6th June 2010