Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. The Golden calf (№ 375418)

Geographer mad quite suddenly: one day he looked at the map of both hemispheres, and found on it the Bering Strait. All day the old teacher searched the map. Everything was in place: and new Faundlend, and the Suez canal and Madagascar and the sandwich Islands with the main city of Honolulu, and even the volcano Popocatepetl, and the Bering Strait was absent. And then, from the map, the old man started. <...> According to the authors the information on the map, which brought to mind a poor geographer, the Bering Strait do not. No Strait was caused by the stupidity of the publishing house "the Book and the pole."