Colonial-era geographic myths persisted for centuries before being corrected. [fact]
- Australia, although a large landmass, is no longer believed to balance the earth. However, this myth was only dispelled some two hundred years ago. … 34. Otaheite was renamed Tahiti, an island that remains under colonial rule hundreds of years later. The Fijians are often described as cannibalistic giants in colonial-era literature.
XREF: Links to histories of cartography and how colonial knowledge shaped perceptions of the Pacific and its peoples.
Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 1034