# Candyn

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**Candyn** (also spelled *Candin* or *Candy*) was a supposed remote east-Asian island around the turn of the 15th century.

On the 1457 [Genoese map](/source/Genoese_map) there is an island of *Candia*, with a report of a "large fish" being captured and brought back to [Venice](/source/Venice).

It can be found on [Martin Behaim's globe](/source/Erdapfel) in 1492, where he described it as being: "foot against foot with respect to our land, and when it is day with us they have night" (in other words, in the [antipodes](/source/Antipodes)).

It appeared on the 1507 map of [Johannes Ruysch](/source/Johannes_Ruysch), the [Waldseemüller map](/source/Waldseem%C3%BCller_map), and the [Johannes Schöner globe](/source/Johannes_Sch%C3%B6ner_globe).

It may be identified with [Odoric's](/source/Odoric_of_Pordenone) island of "Dondin".

Although speculation has linked it with [Ceylon](/source/Ceylon) or [Indonesian](/source/Indonesia) islands, no positive determination has been made matching Candyn with any known physical location.

## References

- *The World Map, 1300–1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation*, Evelyn Edson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
- *Early Mapping of Southeast Asia*, Thomas Suarez, Periplus, 1999
- [Cartographic-images.net #248, The Genoese Map](http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/248_The_Genoese_Map.html)

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