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1507Waldseemüller Map Names AmericaFirst printed map to label the New World "America"German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published the Universalis Cosmographia, a large wall map crediting Amerigo Vespucci's voyages by naming the newly charted continent "America." It was the first printed map to use the name and to depict a separate Pacific Ocean. The map was produced in Saint-Dié, in the Duchy of Lorraine.