This is the third of the plates that Ortelius used to delineate the American continent. The earlier ones first appeared in 1570 and 1579 respectively. This one is most easily identified by the lack of a bulge to the south-western coastline of South America. It is mostly correct in showing a southerly extending shoreline. This is also the only one of the three with his imprint, where he states that he was its author.

At first glance not much appears to have been altered, but closer inspection reveals a great deal. The Solomon Islands are here shown for the first time since they were discovered in 1568 by Alvaro de Mendaña. On the west coast of North America some new nomenclature appears, ‘R. de los estrechos’, ‘Cab. Mendocino’ and ‘California’. The most important introductions on the east coast are the Indian name ‘WINGANDEKOA’, and just to its north an inlet. They both originate from the unsuccessful English attempts at colonising the Outer Banks of present day North Carolina. It has been suggested that the inlet could be the first depiction of Chesapeake Bay on a printed map. It is interesting to note that he does not include the Ortelius-Chaves delineation of the southern river system” (Burden 64). There exist letters between Ortelius, William Camden and Jacob Cole in which the issue of the location of Wingandekoa is discussed. Refer to the second volume of ‘The Mapping of North America’ p. xii for details. There are two states of it, the second being exceedingly rare. Burden (1996) 64, state 1; Burden (2007) p. xii; Van den Broecke 11; Wagner (1937) p. 71.