Was it really a mythological land though? In 1948, a 45 km-wide point of land at coordinates of 46°23′N 37°20′W was found submerged only 36.5 m below the ocean surface. Significantly, this location due west of Brittany tallies with the earliest map drawings.

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Despite its popularity with cartographers for over five centuries, no accounts exist of anyone having visited its shores.

Some have speculated Mayda could have been a very early depiction of Corvo in the Azores, or even the crescent-shaped lands of Bermuda, Cape Cod or Cape Breton in the Americas.