Notes from the margins

A closer look.
A different perspective.

Stories behind the charts. Questions from the workshop. Small discoveries worth sharing.

Detail of the Arctic chart showing the title and islands surrounded by unknown geography
01 / Reading a map · 4 min read

“As known in 1845.”
Five words that change the map.

The map is not the territory. It’s a record of what someone believed about it, at a particular moment in time.

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