Map & Territory
The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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The History of Map Errors
In 1875, the newly appointed hydrographer to the Royal British Navy deleted 123 islands from an official map of the Pacific. The Evans Island Map Massacre still gives us a little bit of the scale of the problem. We've already covered a hearty handful of map errors over the last 100 episodes. There are also a bunch of really great map-error stories that are just too big to tell here or that I'm otherwise keeping in my back pocket for later.
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