place wrongly

The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J Pyne It was published in 1986 and for me was an extraordinary eye-opener: at the same time, geology, physics, intensely poetic prose in its descriptive passages, and a rich history of a place wrongly assumed to have none.

Misset, mis-set′, v.t. to set or place wrongly or unfitly.—p.adj.