Archive: December 2017 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Julie Stoner; (Year) 2017; (Month) December

A Year in Review: Newly Scanned Maps of 2017

December 29, 2017

Every month on our home page, we provide a monthly list of maps that have been scanned and added to the online collections of the Geography and Map Division. To celebrate the end of the year and to ring in the new, I took a look back at the lists of maps that have been …

Posted in: Exploring the Early Americas, Geography and Map Division, Series: A Year in Review

Brown, red, and yellow tinted map illustration of the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, with a circular frame around them

Extremities of the Earth: The Most Remote Inhabited Island

December 14, 2017

Posted by: Julie Stoner

Where is the lowest point on dry land? Or the northernmost inhabited point on earth? How about the highest city? All of these questions and many more will be unraveled in this new occasional series, Extremities of the Earth, created to explore the farthest reaches of our planet. For this inaugural post for the series, …

Posted in: Exploration, Series: Extremities of the Earth

Refined by: (Author) Julie Stoner; (Year) 2017; (Month) December