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Arab maps primarily focused on the Mediterranean and Persia, whereas Western navigators needed to know the Atlantic Coast, the New World, and the area around India and Southeast Asia. Arab Maps were poor or extremely innacurate in these areas. Some of them even postulated that Africa connected with Antarctica.

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