First suggestion of continental drift

According to Official Guinness Records,

Looking at any world map it is obvious that the coastlines of west Africa and east South America match each other in shape. The first person to notice this is believed to be the Flemish mapmaker Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). He believed that the two continents were once joined together before drifting apart. Continental drift only became accepted by mainstream academia in the last half of the twentieth century.

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