ABSTRACT
Europe west of the Vistula, and south into the Alps and along the northern Adriatic coast as far south as Macedonia and east along the south shore of the upper Danube. Ivernia, the northwesternmost region of the inhabited world, was considered by Ptolemy the third largest island known. Albion was believed to be the ancient name for the island, or a portion of it. It was known to the Mediterranean world from at least the fourth century bc, or nearly a century earlier if the Carthaginian Himilko had gone this far and recorded the toponym. Pytheas was the first from the Mediterranean to explore the Island of Albion. Depicting Western Europe in antiquity as recorded by Ptolemy. Topographically the most interesting features recorded in Germania Megale were at its northern limits.
