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NB! · Archive · Geography · Maps · London
National Flags of the Warships of Various Countries, Published in London in 1894
NB! · Archive · Faith · Geography · Maps
The Creation of Woman and the Fall of Man, from the atlas of the French geographer and publisher Claude de Mornas, 1762
The East · Geography · Maps
The 2,500 km border between Iran and the USSR on land and the Caspian Sea
A Map of Persia from 1922, a Diagram of the Border with the USSR and a Map of Present-Day Iran. The shared border between Iran and the USSR: 2,500 km of land border, Azerbaijani-Iranian, Armenian-Iranian and Turkmen-Iranian, together with the maritime border on the Caspian
NB! · Geography · Maps · Books
A Map of the World According to Homer
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Map of the Russian Empire, 1783
NB! · Geography · Maps · Science
1000 km on the Mercator projection are not what they seem
The East · Geography · Maps
The Aral Sea on maps of Asia and the Caspian shown in place of two seas in Sanson's atlas
The Aral Sea appears on maps of Asia only at the very end of the seventeenth century. Indeed, many atlases of even later date, such as this atlas by Sanson, still show the Caspian Sea as if it were two seas in one: they mark the Syr Darya and the
NB! · Geography · Maps
Empires of the Ancient World, AD 200
NB! · Geography · Maps
An Arctic-centred map, a most interesting view of this part of the world
NB! · Geography · Maps · Observations · Humour
World map with south at the top, published by the Brazilian government
A map of the world according to the government of Brazil. Indeed, why not?
NB! · Coming Up · Geography · Maps · Science
Where Pacifida, or the continent of Mu, is placed and where the idea came from
That very place on earth, rarely shown to the layman, where Pacifida, or the continent of Mu, ought to be found. Where the very idea of it came from, hear in the third episode of my podcast