Mateusz Przyidło, a PhD student at the Silesian University of Technology, revealed errors in the geographical nomenclature of South America. He found mistakes in the nomenclature of the flat mountains known locally as “tepui” located between Guyana and Venezuela.
The errors were revealed by a scientific expedition in Guyana, in which the doctoral student took part in 2019. The student dealt with fact that the name of the Waukauyengtipu plateau was not used in the maps or in the official register of geographical names of Guyana, while in the scientific literature it was referred to as a synonym for Cerro Venamo – another plateau on the Venezuelan side, located almost 30 km from Waukauyengtipu.
The revealed errors were described in the journal “Miscellanea Geographica”. The authors of the publication are Mateusz Przyidło, British geographer Stewart McPherson, and H. David Clarke, leader of the 1997 Smithsonian expedition. According to scientists, the inaccuracies on the maps were probably caused by a very small amount of information available about the area.
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