Nordic Map Porn: Charting Where Dragons And Other Nasties Abound

Posted by Mike Richard
Filed under: Odds + Ends, Sidelines

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The Tranquilo Traveler points us to a delicious bit of “map porn“.

… the Carta Marina. The famous first map of the Nordic countries with details and placenames was first copied in 1539 in Venice, printed from nine woodcut blocks to produce a document 1.70 m tall by 1.25 m wide. To really appreciate this map, download the file and check out the detail. There is indeed a warning about dragons toward its edges.

Dragons? Lovely! As someone who’s never met a map I didn’t like, this is quite nice indeed.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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Dan
July 16th, 2007

That is cool, and with that program that cuts up high res photos so you can print them on multiple pages and make a wall map at a fraction of the cost of buying a copy.


Mike
July 17th, 2007

I didn’t even think about that. That’d be pretty sweet!