Sitemap - 2025 - A Cartographer's Tale
Islarios: collections of islands
Christopher Columbus and the problem of longitude
Tourist maps of Spain, by Jacques Liozu (1953)
Here be dragons, beyond the known world
Atlantropa, a plan to connect Europe and Africa
How the prehistoric coastline influences US elections
Holidays and the Olympics in Nazi Germany
Three maps to understand the Internet
The discovery and conquest of Antarctica
Kadesh: history is written by the victors
Cartographic projections: deforming the Earth to represent it
A history of relations between Iran and the West
The Kingdom of Bamum, the best example of indigenous African cartography
The Russian arrival on the Pacific Coast
The abyss of demographic winter
Italian irredentism and propaganda
Lost waters: prehistoric lakes
The blackout: chickpeas, uncertainty and misinformation
Unexpected curves: Drawing straight lines on a map
How humans learned to paint the world
Portugal is not a small country
Time zones: time standardization
Why does the day have 24 hours?
The United States of Europe: a peculiar history of European federalism
Trump, Google Maps and the names of places
The rise of the jet set and Pan Am in-flight menus
The first regional maps and the first world map
The casualty count of the Battle of the Somme
The Pangaeas that were and the Pangaeas to come
Maps in airborne leaflet propaganda during WWII
Niagara Falls, a remnant of the last ice age