Good thing that ocean was there or 1600s Virginia would have claimed the entire planet with their innovative “peeling the label off a biscuit can” approach to real estate.

Reminds me about the Treaty of Zaragoza between Castile (Spain) and Portugal, where they divided the world in two half between each other. Just claim big.

Context: The “new world” was just discovered 35 yeas earlier and the world map was still very crude in the east indias and the new amazonas region - worldmaps 1530