Figures in italics indicate captions to illustrations.
AA 376
Admiralty 348
Aegean Sea 49
aethroscopes 189
Africa
Andrea Bianco map 71
in the Beatus Map 66
blank spaces in 210–14, 213, 216, 219
and de la Cosa’s map 109–10
Ebstorf map 69
gold reserves 205
and Hondius 141n
imperialism in 216
Mercator’s map 132
Ogilby’s work 172
as part of Gondwana 260
and the Silver Map 138
in The Times Atlas 152
Vinland Map 92
Waldseemüller map 113
world in three sections 25, 27
Africanus, Leo 207
Agrippa, Emperor 49
Agueras y Arcas, Blaise 435
Aitchison, James 182
Aitsinger, Michael 160
The Book of Roger 64
Alakabeth: World of Doom 408
Álarcón, Hernando de 121
Aldrin, Buzz 425
Alerte (ship) 252
Alexander Island 265
Alexander the Great 23, 67, 143
Alexandria, Egypt 22, 24, 66, 92
Algeria 218
Allan, Alasdair 432
Allen, Woody 320
Alphadesigner (Yanko Tsvetkov) 439
Alphonso V of Portugal 76
Amazon (retailer) 435
America
the Blaeu Atlas Maior on 148
Cortés makes first plan of an American city 120
and Hondius 141n
name appears on a map for first time 112, 113–14, 117, 119
name begins to appear on other maps 120
Ogilby’s English Atlas 172
in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 143
Waldseemüller choice of name 119 see also United States
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 388
American Eagle
American Psychological Association 370
Ampthill Park 326
Amundsen, Roald 256, 272, 314n, 425
Amundsen microprobe 393n
Angelus, Jacobus 103
Antarctic Circle 263
Antarctic Peninsula 263–64
Antarctic Treaty (1959) 271
Antarctica
Discovery expedition in 256, 258–9
Finé’s map 262
in data from Marinus of Tyre 37
land-grab map 271
Mercator’s map 126
as part of Gondwana 260
Terra Nova expedition 259
Ui-te-Rangiora fable 260
and United States 271, 272, 378n
Antoniadi, Eugenios 391–2
Antony, Mary 32
AOL 428
Apian, Peter 120
Apollonius 23
Apple 434–5
Apple Mac 416
Apple Maps 434–35
Arabia
in Eratosthenes’s map 28
and Gastaldi 143
Arader, W. Graham, III 352–8, 355, 364–5
Argand oil lamp 189
Arizona 121
Armada 136
armillary spheres see astrolabes
Armitage, Simon 372
Armsheim, Johannes
de 105
Armstrong, Neil 429
Arneson, Dave 408
Arrian 23
Ashford, William 201
Asia
Andrea Bianco map 71
and Columbus 107
Gastaldi’s mural 84
Hereford Mappa Mundi 49
Strabo on 33
Toscanelli’s suggestion 105–6
Vinland Map 92
Waldseemüller map 113
world in three sections 25, 27
Association of American Geographers 367
astrolabes 25
Atkinson, James 70
Atlantic Ocean
Andrea Bianco map 71
and Drake’s Passage 138–9
in Eratosthenes’s map 28
Atlas Mountains 25
a craze in Venice 143
Mercator introduces the word 140
Blaeu Atlas Maior 149
popular atlas 144
Augustus, Emperor 50
Austen, Jane 299
Australia
and Antarctica 271
Ayers Rock mapped 239
Burke and Wills’s journey 235–9, 236, 238
Cook sails to (1770) 263
explorers in 234–5
gold rush (1850s) 234
as part of Gondwana 260
telegraph line 239
and Terra Australis 261
Australopithecus 414
Automative Navigation
Data (AND) 380–81
Automobile Club of America 402
Ayers Rock (Uluru), Australia 239
Azimuthal projection 13, 127, 134, 350
Azores 71
Babylonian world map clay tablet 38, 38n
Bacon, CW 437
Baedeker 302–4, 303, 305, 306, 308, 310
Balbao, Vasco Nuñez de 113
Ball, Lucille 320
Banks, Joseph 205
Barber, Peter 53
Barrie, Sir J. M. 311–12
Peter Pan 311
Barrow, Ian J. 193n
Bartholomew (cartographic firm) 154, 209, 404
Bassett, Thomas 208
Bauhaus school 154
World Geo-Graphic Atlas 154–56, 155
Baynes-Cope, Dr Arthur David 52, 333
Bazalgette, Joseph 232
BBC Worldwide 376n
Beardmore Glacier 270
Beatrice, Princess 223
Beatus of Liebana 65
Beer, Wilhelm 390–91
Beinecke Library, Yale
Belgium 160
Bellerby, Peter 327–33, 331, 340–46, 342
Bellingshausen, Fabian
Gottlieb von 264–5
Bellini, Giovanni 85
Belwood, Peter 363
Ben Nevis 197
Berlin Conference (1884–5) 218
Bethesda Game Studios 397
Bethlehem 62
Biblioteca Marciana, Venice 75
Bills of Mortality 230
Binger, Louis-Gustave 204–5, 209
Bishop’s Head, St Paul’s Churchyard, London 171
Bismarck, Prince Otto von 218
Bissell-Thomas, James 343–44
Bitter River 38n
Bjarni Herjolfsson 91n
Blackberrys 19
Blaeu, Cornelis 147
Blaeu, Joan 147, 148, 149–51, 154, 158, 353
Blaeu, Willem 147
Africae Nova Descriptio 211, 212
Blaeu Atlas Maior 146–51, 149, 150, 158, 160
Blaeu dynasty 146–7, 151, 261, 397
Blair, Tony 58
Blake, Erin C. 74
Bland, Gilbert 363–64
Blaxland, Gregory 234–35
Blessed Isles 130
Blue Mountains, Australia 234
Blue Nile 205
Bodleian Library, Oxford 22
Boetti, Alighiero 440
Bogart, Humphrey 320
Boissière, Gilles de la 400
Bookheimer, Susan 423
Booth, Mary 275
Borges, Jorge Luis 426
Bosch, Hieronymus 46
Boston, Massachusetts 122, 166
Bowers, Henry 270
Bowlegs, Captain Billy 248
Bowles, Carrington 183
Bradbury, Ray 389
brain injury 414
brain mapping 410–23
brain expansion and sophistication 414–16
Brodmann maps 417–18, 419, 422
Chris Clark’s child health work 417, 420
Human Connectome Project 422–23
Maguire’s research on cab drivers 410–14, 412, 420
MRI scanning 420–21
repairing memory loss 414
tractography 421
Bransfield, Sir Edward 264
Brettania 28
Brewster, Sir David 267
Britain
Andrea Bianco map 71
and Antarctica 271
‘Baedeker raids’ 303
in the Beatus Map 66
and de la Cosa’s map 109
on Hereford Mappa Mundi 48
imperialism in Africa 216
Matthew Paris’s strip map 62
Mercator’s Atlas on 141
Strabo’s comments 33
British Association For the Advancement of Science (BAFTAS) 266, 267
British Library, London 22, 45, 46, 53, 62, 66, 159, 356, 360, 363, 417
British Museum, London 38n, 52, 95, 98, 100, 101, 135, 269, 333, 440–1
Broad Street water pump, London 226, 227, 228, 229
Brodmann, Korbinian 417–20, 422
Brontë, Charlotte 231–2
Brussels geographical conference (1876) 216
Buddhism 65
Bukhara, Uzbekistan 78
Bunyan, John 174
Burdwood Island 262–3
Burke, Robert O’Hara 235–39, 236, 238
Burke and Wills (film) 239
Burton, Charles 391
Burton, Richard 210
Burton Bay, Mars 391
Bush, George W. 58
Butler, Paul 15–16
Byrd, Admiral 268
Cabinet War Rooms, London 328, 347, 350
Cabot, John (Giovanni Caboto) 83, 105, 110
Cabot, Sebastian 83
‘cadastral’ maps 183
Caernarfon Castle 48
Cagnoli, Antonio: Traité de Trigonométrie 181
Caillié, René 214
Drake in 137
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Caltech) 86
California Map Society 122
‘calottes’ 344
Calvin, William 415
Cambridge University 363
Cameron, David 328
Cameroon 218
Canary Islands 130
Cannibal Islands, The 111
Cansay (Quinsay; now Hangchow), China 79
Cantilupe Pilgrimage Complex 54
Cape Adare 268
Cape Anne 268
Cape Canaveral 375
Cape Christie 268
Cape Cod, Mass. 122
Cape Comorin 192
Cape Cotter 268
Cape Downshire 268
Cape Evans 269
Cape of Good Hope 106, 139, 213, 260, 261n
Cape Hallett 268
Cape Hooker 268
Cape McCormick 268
Cape Moore 268
Cape North 268
Cape Town 256
Cape Verde islands 83, 130, 138, 338
Cape Wood 268
Caquard, Sébastien 316–17, 318
Carpaccio, Vittore 85
Carpini, John de Plano 91, 92, 95, 96, 97
Carta Marina 119
Cartographic Journal 316–17, 367
cartography
as both art and science 104
digital 197, 317, 319, 432, 433–4, 443
emergence of French ‘scientific’ school 151
Eratosthenes’s work 25
first copyright 174
first great German contribution to 105
golden age of 144
period of flamboyancy and ornamentation 151
romantic 268’ new commercial artform 146
cartouches 13, 103, 144, 148, 172, 179, 211
Cary, John 183
‘A New Map of Africa, from the Latest Authorities’ 207
Cassini, Giovanni Maria 339, 353, 390
Globo Terrestre 339
Cassini de Thury, César-François: Description Géométrique de la France 181
Castillo, Domingo del 121
Catherine of Aragon 326
Catherine of Braganza 173
Cazones 138
Ceylon 33
Chabrol, Claude 320
Champlain, Samuel de 360
Chanceaux, France 61
Chandler, Nancy 371
Charles, Prince of Wales 51
Charles II, King 151, 171, 173, 173
Charleston 304n
Chartwell, Kent 327, 328–9, 331–3
Charybdis 48
Cheffins, C. F. 228
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 269, 270, 271
The Worst Journey in the World 269, 270, 391
Chevalier, Nicholas 238
Chimneys, The 262–3
Ch’in Shu 81
China
the Blaeu Atlas Maior on 148
first included in map data by Marinus of Tyre 37
and GPS 378n
isolationism 81
‘The Map of China and Barbarian Lands’ 81, 81
‘Maps of the Tracks of Yu The Great’ 81–2
Ogilby’s work 172
prospects of exploration 79, 81
and the Silver Map 138
in The Times Atlas 152
in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 143
cholera 223, 224–6, 225, 227, 228–30, 232
Christie’s auction house, London 181–2
Christopher, St 111
chronometer 106n
Churchill, Sir Winston 327, 328, 329, 331–5, 347–51, 349
Churchman, Joseph 162
circumnavigation of the earth
civic maps, earliest 26
Cleomedes 29
Cleopatra 32
Clinton, Bill 378
Cock, Hieronymus 122
Coffman, Ferris La Verne 248
Colby, Thomas 189
Colossus of Rhodes 48
Columbus, Christopher 37, 76, 87, 91, 111, 119, 142, 336–37, 374
discovery of the New World 99
first trans-Atlantic voyage (1492) 35, 105–6, 110, 113, 136, 261n
and a flat earth 25
lands in South America 107, 116, 117, 118
and misnaming of America 112, 120
and Polo’s Travels 79
third voyage (1498) 107
Compass network 378n
compass points 18, 110, 369, 371
compasses 182, 197, 199, 267, 336–7, 404, 413
comScore 427
Condé Nast Traveller 369
Conformal projection 130
Conquete du Monde, La (board game) 402
Constantinople 103
Container Corporation of America 154
Contarini, Giovanni 111–12
contours 198
Cook, Captain James 181, 261, 263, 264, 271
Cooper’s Creek, Australia 236, 237, 239
copper plates 84, 103, 141n, 147, 151, 177
Cordiform projection 127
Coronelli, Vincenzo 338
county surveys 183
Crane, Nicholas 130
Cretan Labyrinth 46
Crimean War (1853–6) 250
Crocker Nuclear Laboratory 100
Crozet Islands 258
Curtiz, Michael 314
Cyrene, Libya 25
D&D World of Greyhawk 408
Da Gama, Vasco 105, 110, 260–61, 261n, 425
Da Signa, Boncompagno 84–5
Dabbs, James 371
Dagronia 74
Dalche, Patrick Gautier 69
Dalrymple, Alexander 263
D’Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourgignon 212–14, 213
Dapper, Olfert 365
Darrow, Charles Brace 403
Darwin 239
Davenport, B. Warwick 334, 335
Davis, J. E. 222
De Cantilupe, St Thomas 54–5
De Gruchy & Leigh’s map of Burke and Wills’ route 235–6, 236, 238
de Hamel, Dr Christopher 42
de la Acensión, Antonio 124
De la Cosa, Juan 116
map of Columbus’s journeys 107–11, 108
De Mosto, Alvise 83
dead reckoning 106, 374, 378, 383
Declaration of Independence (1776) 165
Defoe, Daniel 222
delineators 182
Deller, Jeremy 440
Dexter, Mike 197
Diana, Princess 51
Dias, Bartolomeu 105, 106, 261n
Dijkstra, Edsger W. 380n
DiMaggio, Joe 322
Discovery expedition (1901–4) 255–6, 258–9, 273
Discovery space shuttle 375
Dollond, John 182
Dollond, Peter 182
Don River 49
Donwood, Stanley 440
Doom 406
Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel 338
dragons on maps 72–74, 73, 431
Drake, Sir Francis 135–39, 262, 425
‘Drogho’ 101n
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) 406–8, 407
Dunkirk evacuation 348
Dürer, Albrecht 127
D’Urville, Jules Dumont 268
earth, the
bulges slightly at Equator 29
at centre of the universe 27
circumference 29
curvature of 110, 126, 192, 350
Drake’s circumnavigation 135
dual-hemisphere projection 76
Eratosthenes’s calculations 29, 32, 33
first circumnavigation (1522) 113, 337
the inhabited world 27–8
as one round planisphere 76
round 24
Strabo’s calculations 33
Earth Platinum Edition 158, 159
East End, London 275, 275, 276, 277–8
East India Company 192
Ebstorf map 67, 68, 69, 73, 74
eco-tourism 309
Edinburgh 311–12
Edward I, King 48
Eighty Years War (1568–1648) 161
Einstein, Albert 410–11, 413, 420
Elcano, Juan Sebastian 137
Elizabeth I, Queen 135, 141, 181, 262
Elizabethides 262–63
Ellingham, Mark 310
Endurance expedition (1914–16) 222, 265
English Strait 265
Enlightenment 126
epilepsy 421
Equator, and projections 127
Eratosthenes 34, 192, 391, 409, 425
calculates the earth’s measurements 29, 32, 33
first astrolabe 25
Librarian at Alexandria 25
use of Library scrolls 26–7
Geographica 25
Erebus (ship) 267
Ericsson (Eiriksson), Leif 91n, 425
‘Estoliland’ 101n
Etak 380n
Europe
Al-Idrisi’s map 64
Andrea Bianco map 70–71
Erasthenes’s map 28
and GPS 378n
look of Europe transformed 234
Mercator’s map 132
and the Silver Map 137
Europe on $5 a Day 308
Evans, Edgar 271
Evans, Sir Frederick 220
Evans, Lewis 353
Everest, George 190–93
Expositio Mappae Mundi 69–70
Facebook map 15–17
Faraday, Michael 189
Farmville 406
Ferdinand II, King of Castile 106, 119, 142
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain 124
Ferrajoli de Ry, Enzo 90, 94, 95, 97, 98
Festival of Britain map 437
Fields, W. C. 321
Financial Times 345
Finke, Leonhard Ludwig 231
Fisher, Otto 359
Fitz, Ellen Eliza 340
Fleet River 175
Fleury, France 61
flight trackers 436
Flinders River 237
Florida: first dated map to name Florida 120
Flynn, Errol 321
Folio Society 53
‘fomites’ 224
Fonda, Henry 320
Fontana, Francisco 389–90
Ford, Richard 300n
forgery 87, 92, 96, 97, 100, 118, 364–5
Forlani, Paolo 143
Forster, E.M. 302–3
Fortunate Isles 66
Foursquare 432
Fowler, Lorenzo Niles and Orson Squire 418, 419, 419
Fowler, William 201
France
Andrea Bianco map 71
and Antarctica 271
Cassini family’s Carte de France 184, 185, 186
French ‘scientific’ school of map-making 151
imperialism in Africa 216
maps of occupied France 394
Michelin guides 306–7
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 306
Frederick the Great 184
Friedman, Thomas L. 72
Frobisher, Sir Martin 139
Fukushima 432
Gable, Clark 320
Gale Ridge 268
Galileo Galilei 387
Galileo network 378n
Gall, Franz Joseph 418
Gall, James 131
Gall-Peters projection 131–2, 132, 133
Gallia 137
Garamantes of Solinus 50
Gebirge Kong 207
Geffen, David 323
geocaching 199
geography
coining of the word 26
first scholars 24
geology 260
George VI, King 347
Germany
the Blaeu Atlas Maior on 148
imperialism in Africa 216
magnetic science 266
Mercator’s map 132–3
Monopoly in 405n
role in revival of Ptolemy 146
Gervase of Tilbury 69
Getty, Paul 45
Gibbs Island 265
Giorgione 85
Gladwell, Malcolm (‘Timothy Nation’) 369–70
Glastonbury Festival 439
Globe, London 170
globes 14
‘All States in the Union’ 340
Behaim’s globe 113
eastern hemisphere 119
craze for collectors 104
first successful commercial American globemaker 340
Lenox Globe 73–4
manufacture and sale of 339–40
maps and styles of globes 338–9
miniature 336
Patrick Moore’s globes 385, 386
Glockenthon, Georg Albrecht 337–8
Glonass network 378n
Gnomic projection 127
Goebbels, Joseph 405n
Gog and Magog 67
Golden Hind (ship) 262
Goldfinger (film) 318
Gondwana 260
and Apple 434–5
buys Google Earth software 429
internal mapping 425–6
Liquid Galaxy map wall 425, 426
McClendon’s ambition 427–8
and privacy issues 432–3
Google Maps 126, 134, 310, 344, 376, 424, 425, 427, 428, 430–7
Google Scholar 428
Google Sky 427
Google Street View 433
Googleplex, Mountain View, California 424, 425, 426, 433, 443
Goos, Abraham 122
Gosse, William 239
Gould, Rupert 222
Gowrie, Lord 42, 43, 44, 45, 52
GPS (Global Positioning System) 19, 186, 197, 199, 374–84
advanced trilateration 374
arrival of in-car digital mapping 379
commercialisation of US Navy’s ‘Transit’ system 379
Dutch dominance of the new digital mapping world 379–80
and large sheet maps 377–8
loss of 375
and OpenStreetMap 442
principles of 378–9
privacy issue 432
start of 378
TomTom Go Live 1005 World 375–6
and US 378n
when it fails 376–7, 377 see also sat navs
Grand Forks, North Dakota test 368
Grand Theft Auto 4 (GTA4) 397–98
Grand Tour of Europe 298
Graphical User Interface 416
Great Fire of London (1666) 171, 173, 174, 179, 180, 230
Great Ice Barrier 258, 268, 314n
Great Library of
destruction by fire (48 BC) 32
Eratosthenes’s calculations 29
first accomplished maps of the world 23–4
fragmentary information about world 25
legacy of Alexander the Great 23
proto-map of the world 24
the world’s first university 23
Great Meridional Arc 192
Great Trigonometrical
Survey of India 191–2, 191, 193
Great Wall of China 67
Great White Silence, The (film) 314n
Greaves & Thomas 344
Greco-Persian wars 24
Greco-Roman empire 37
Green, Robert 171
Greenland
the Blaeu Atlas Maior on 148
first printed world map to show Greenland 105
shown as an island for first time 261, 262
Greenwich Island 265
Greenwich Observatory, London 186, 391n
grid north 198
guidebooks 297–310
Baedekers 301, 303–4, 303, 305
criticism of 302–3
Fodor and Frommer 307–9
Lonely Planet and Rough Guides 308–10, 309
and spread of railways 301
Guinness Book of World Records 151, 159
Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia 235, 236, 237
Gurney, Goldsworthy 190
Gutierrez, Diego 121
Gygax, Gary 408
Gymnasium Vosagense 113
Hakluyt, Richard 136
Hamilton, Captain R.V. 221–2
Handbook to India, Burma and Ceylon (Murray) 301
Harcourt, Rev W. Vernon 267
Harold, King 39
Harrison, John 106n
Harrison, Richard Edes 350, 351, 351
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (film) 318–20, 319
Hartman, Phil 322
Harvard University 360
Harvey, Miles 364
Hastings, Battle of (1066) 39
Haynes, Very Reverend Peter, Dean of Hereford 42–3, 44, 51, 52
Hecataeus of Miletus 26
heliostats 189
Helluland 93
Hendrik van Loon’s Wide World 402
Heng, Chang 81
Henry III, King 60
Henry VII, King 83
Henry the Navigator 337
‘Here Be Dragons’ map myth 72, 73, 73, 74
Hereford Cathedral 42–3, 45, 51–2, 75
Hereford Mappa Mundi 42–58, 47, 48, 53, 62, 63, 67, 69, 70, 75, 112, 298, 333
anomalies on 48
dating of 48
facsimiles of 52–3
am 52
proposed sale of 42–3, 44, 45, 53
resurgence in academic study of 53–5
sources 46
a T-O map 49
Hero (boat) 264
Herschel, Sir John 266
Herschel II Strait, Mars 391
Hill, Sir Rowland 201–2, 202, 203
Hippocrates 231
Hippodamus 26
Hispaniola 107
Historia General 122
Hoces, Francisco de 137n
Hodgson, Thomas 258
Hollar, Wenceslaus 172
Holy Land 78
and Madaba map 39
Holzer, Jenny 440
Homann, Johann Baptist 338
Home, Gordon 256
Hondius, Henricus 147
Hondius, Jodocus 141n, 211, 261, 353
Hondius dynasty 151
Hooke, Robert 179
Hope, Bon 320
Hounslow Heath 187
Housego, Fred 413
Howitt, Alfred 238
Hsiu, P’ei 81
Hsuang-Tsang 65
Hudson Strait 139
Human Connectome Project 422–3
human genome 422
Humboldt, Alexander von 107n
Hunt, Frank A. de Vine 349
hunter-gatherers 370–71, 415, 416
Huygens, Christiaan 390
IBM 432
Iceberg B-15 264n
Iceland
Behaim’s Erdapfel globe 338
the Blaeu Atlas Maior on 148
Ichaboe Island 222
ichnographic maps 175
Imago Mundi
journal 102
India
in the Beatus Map 66
Calcutta map 193n
and de la Cosa’s map 110
in Eratosthenes’s map 28
Great Trigonometrical Survey of India 191–2, 191, 193
Herodotus’s work 25
Marco Polo in 78
opening up of 308
Strabo on 33
Vasco da Gama’s arrival in 110
Waldseemüller map 113
‘Indian Question’ 152
Indiana Jones 315–16
inertial navigation 373–74, 379
Infortunates Insules 138
International
Astronomical Union 86
international dateline 221
International Map Collectors’ Society (IMCoS) 328
International Space Station 375
Ireland
and de la Cosa’s map 109
in Eratosthenes’s map 28
Strabo’s comments 33
Vinland Map 92
Irwin, B. St G. 199
Isabella, Haiti 111
Isabella I, Queen of Castile 106
Ischia 143
Isle of Wight 92, 188, 343, 344
isothermal lines 107n
Italy
imperialism in Africa 216
printing trade 146
itinerarium 297
Itinerary from Bordeaux to Jerusalem 297–8
Jacobite Uprising (1745) 183–84
Jacobs, Frank 438n
Jacobs, Henry 201
Jaffe & Neale’s Bookshop 197, 199
James I, King 172
Janssonius, Johannes 147, 154, 261
Janszoon, Willem 235n
Japan
and Contarini 111
Ogilby’s work 172
and the Silver Map 138
in The Times Atlas 152
and Ushahidi mapping 442–3
Jerome, St 46
Jerusalem
Baedeker’s map 304
Ebstorf map 69
and Hereford Mappa Mundi 43, 55–6
Holy Sepulchre 78
and Madaba map 39
Paris’s Chronica Majora 58, 59, 60, 61
in Psalter Map 67
Vinland Map 92
John Bull 164–5
Johnson, B. 437
Johnson, Martin 314n
Johnson, Osa 314n
Johnson, Steven 232
Journal of Experimental Psychology 369
Journey Through Europe 401
Keates, Jonathan 306
Kelly, Ned 239
Kennedy, John F. 322
Kent: Ordnance Survey 188, 188
Khubilai Khan 78
Kidd, William ‘Captain’ 252
Kidron, Michael and Segal, Ronald: The State of the World Atlas 156–8, 157
Kindle devices 435
King’s College, Cambridge 363
King’s Creek, Australia 237
Kino, Eusebio 124
Knight, Edward Frederick 240, 241, 243, 246, 251–4, 252, 255, 269
Knopf 350
Lafreri-Doria Atlas 143
Lake Tanganyika 214
Lambert, Johann Heinrich 131
Lambton, William 192
Lamorisse, Albert 402
Lander, John 208
Lander, Richard 208
Lane, Samuel 340
Lang, Fritz 317
Latitude 13, 37, 39, 43, 106n, 126, 127, 130
Leichardt, Ludwig 235
Leland, John 179
Leno, Dan 190
Lenox Globe 73–4
Leo Hollandicus 161
Leonardo da Vinci 127
Leopold, Prince 223
Leopold II, King of the Belgians 216, 218
Letts, Malcolm 50
Lewis, Sarah 229–30
Lewis, Police Constable Thomas 229
Lexicon (game) 403
Leybourn, William 174
Liberty City video game 394, 398–400, 399
Library of Congress, Washington DC 112, 135, 165, 248, 356
Ancient 25
Lily, George 143
Lincoln Highway (board game) 402
Liquid Galaxy map wall, Google 425, 426
Little Titch 190
Livingstone, David 204, 210, 214, 216, 330, 425
Livingstone, Marion Carswell 330
Lloyd, Marie 190
London
bombing in Second World War 180
Great Stink 232
maps of 170–71
mapsellers’ advertisements 168, 170
Paris’s strip map 60, 62 see also Great Fire of London
London Epidemiological Society 229
London Poverty Map (Booth) 274–8, 275
Lonely Planet 308–10
fixing of 18
and Harrison’s chronometer 106n
and projections 127
and Ptolemy 130
Look at the World 350–51
Lottery Octopus, The 165
Louis XIV, King 356
Louis XV, King of France 184
Louisiana Purchase Proclamation 353
Low Countries
cartography turned into a new commercial artform 146
Leo Belgicus 160
Lowell, Percival 387–9, 388, 389, 391
Lowell Observatory, Arizona 387–8, 388, 391, 392
Lubbock, Sir John 267
Lyttleton, New Zealand 258
M (film) 317–18
McClendon, Brian 425–32
Macey’s Island 262–3
Mackintosh, Steven 329
McLaughlin, Glen 122–3
McNally, Rand 209
Madaba map 39
Madison, James 353
Mädler, Johann von 390–91
Magellan, Ferdinand 113, 137, 138 374, 425
Magellan Straits 170
Maggs Bros 354
magnetic compass 110
magnetic north 198
Magnetic Resonancing Imaging (MRI) 420, 421
functional 420
magnetic science 266
Maguire, Eleanor 411–14, 417, 420
Mammoth Cave 304n
Manhattan 122, 149, 150, 231, 398, 411
Manomotara 213
map auction, (Christie’s, London, 1790) 181–2
map dealer, the biggest 352–60, 355
map-folding 312
Mapipedia 442
Mappa Mundi Trust 45
mappae mundi 63, 260, 360, 406, 429, 440
video games 395 see also Hereford Mappa Mundi
maps and games
card games 400–401
video games 395–400, 396, 399, 405–6, 408–9
Mar Del Zur 122
Mar Vermeio 122
Marauder’s Map, The 318–19, 319
Marie Byrd Land 268
marine vessel trackers 436
Mariner spacecraft 387, 389, 392, 392
Markland 93
Mars
first full map based on Mercator projection 390–91
first maps 389–90
Lowell’s theories 388–9
orbital movements 389
and Patrick Moore’s books 386–7
Mars Exploration Rovers 393
Marshall, General George C. 332–3, 335
Marston, Tom 96–9
Martellus, Henricus 261n
Mary, Virgin 71
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 405
Mastermind 413
Mauretania Hotel, Los
Angeles 322
map of the world 76, 77, 79, 83, 105
May, Brian (and corkscrew barnet) 385
Mayo, Nancy H. 122–3
Me-Mapping 429
Mecca 92
medical geography 231
Melbourne, Lord 266
Mellon, Paul 98
Mercator, Gerardus 15, 76, 126, 135, 137, 140–41, 146, 150, 261, 350, 353, 425
Scull’s theft 363
Mercator, Rumold 141
Mercator projection 13, 126, 130–31, 136, 350, 390–91
Mercator’s map 125–7, 128, 130–34
Mexico, opening up of 308
Meyer’s Loop 421
Michelin guides 306–7, 307, 376
Middle East peace process 58
Miletus, Turkey 26
MIS-X 405n
Mississippi River 304n
‘Mistaken Strait, The’ (later Hudson Strait) 139
Mitchell, Edgar 86
Mitock & Sons 320
Moll, Herman 353
Moluccas 150
Mongolia, Carpini visits 91
Monopoly (game) 403–5
Moon Mountains 207
Moore, Isaac W. 162
Moore, Sir Patrick 385–8, 386, 393
More, Sir Thomas 247
Morecroft, George 201
Morrell, Captain Benjamin 220–22, 221, 262
Moscouia 137
Mosley, James 342
Mount, Elizabeth 340
Mount Desert Island, off Maine 356
Mount Etna, Sicily 60
Mount Everest 156, 190–91, 192–3, 193
Mount Hopeless, Australia 239
Mount Syna 298
Mount Terror 259
Mountains of Kong 204–9, 206, 220
movie stars’ homes 320–23, 321
Muckle Flugga 250
Mudge, Major-General William 201
Muirhead, James and Findlay 304
MultiMap 428
Munich crisis (1938) 347
Munster, Treaty of (1648) 161
Murchison, Sir Roderick 267
murder map, a nineteenth-century 200–203, 202
Murray guidebooks 298–304, 301, 308, 310
Myst 406
Narrow Island 265
NASA 393n
Atlas of Mars 392
National Maritime
Navicom guidance gadget (Toyota) 379
NAVSTAR project 378
Nazis 101, 102, 303, 316, 320, 405n
Nelson, Admiral Lord Horatio 182, 374
Neo-bond 53
neocortex 413
Netherlands
Dutch dominance of digital mapping world 379–80
Dutch Republic established 161
growth of Dutch empire 353
part of the Spanish Empire 160
pilot charts in Dutch shipping 147
Neverland, Colgate-Disney map of 311, 312
New Albion 138
New Amsterdam (later New York City) 148
New England 362
New Holland 263
New Orleans 304n
New Simplified Map of London 439, 439
New South Greenland 221, 222, 262–3
New Times Atlas, The 154
New World
and Contarini 111
and de la Cosa’s map 110
earliest known depiction on a globe 74
Gastaldi’s mapping 84
Gutierrez’s map (1562) 121–22
John Cabot makes landfall 83
in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 144
and Vespucci 116
New York City 231
New York Public Library 22, 74
New York Subway map 442
New Zealand Maritime
Department 248
Nicaraguan invasion of Costa Rica 431
Niger River 205, 207, 208, 209
Nightingale, Florence 224
Nile River
Al-Idrisi’s mapping of the Nile 65
in Herodotus’s accounts 25
Stanley’s expedition 65
North Africa: Al-Idrisi’s map 64
North America
English plantations in 170
Mercator’s map 130
and the Silver Map 138
Waldseemüller map 113
North Pole 344
Mercator’s Atlas on 141
Northeastern University, Boston 357
Northern Ocean 28
Northwest Passage 83, 122, 124, 139, 234, 267
Norway
and Antarctica 271
Oates, Lawrence 270
Odessa 305
Ogilby, John 120, 172–77, 173, 179–80, 179, 183, 211, 298, 353
Britannia project 172, 176–77, 179–80, 179
Ogilby’s English Atlas 172
O’Keefe, Dennis 322
Oliver, Richard 195
Omar, Caliph 38–9
O’Neal, Ryan 323
OpenStreetMap 134, 199, 383, 442
Ordnance Survey 157, 175, 201, 235, 325
abbreviations 196–97
and Charles Booth 276
commissioned by Duke of Richmond 187
debt to Carte de France 184, 186
invented by General Roy 182, 187
first part to be measured 187
importance of project 182–83
Landranger (‘Pink’) series 195, 198
map-reading classes 197–8, 199
National Grid Series (Explorer or ‘Orange’ series) 195, 198
Red Book (1963) 196
regulations 195–6
triangulation 186
Oregon 121
Ortelius, Abraham 137, 146, 150, 261, 353, 425
Ortelius, Abraham,
Bellwood’s theft 363
Theatrum Orbis
orthographic projection 13, 127
Osbourne, Lloyd 243–5
Osbourne family (Ozzy
and Sharon) 323
Osgood, Carlton 353
Oval projection 127
Oxford Advanced Atlas 209
Oxford University 363
Pacific Ocean
and Drake’s Passage 138–9
imaginary islands 220
and Terra Australis 261
and Waldseemüller map 113
Page, Larry 429
Palmer’s Land 265
Paria Peninsula, Venezuela 107, 116
Book of Additions 62
Chronica Majora 58, 59, 60–62, 61
Paris Geographical Society 209
Paris Observatory 186
Pausanias 297
‘pea-light’ 189
Pease, Barbara and Allan 366–7, 369, 371
Peeping Tom of Coventry (musical farce) 190
Pei Lin Museum, Xi’an, China 81
Pekul, Darlene 408
Peloponnese, Strabo on 33
Penn, William 171
Pepys, Samuel 168
periplus documents 297
Perry, Melvin 363
Pharos lighthouse, Alexandria 24, 66
Philip II, King of Spain 353
Phillips, Professor John 267
Phobos 391
phone apps 12, 17, 19, 373, 375, 394
photometers 189
pilot charts 147
Piltdown Man 52
Pim, Commander Richard 348–9, 349
Planetary System Nomenclature 86
Plantin, Christopher 144
Play of Geography, The (board game) 401
Pliny the Elder 46
Pluto 387
Polo, Marco 74, 76, 78, 81, 83, 337, 425
Polo, Matteo 78
Polo, Niccolò 78
Ponting, Herbert 314n
Porter, Philip 208
Portugal: imperialism in Africa 216
Postel, Guillaume 134
Potamus, Hippo 163
Potter, Jonathan 358
Prince of Persia 406
Princess Elizabeth Island 268
Proctor, Richard 391
Pseudocordiform
projection 127
Ptolemy, Claudius 82, 84, 104, 113, 115, 119, 141–2, 148, 150, 211, 260, 409
Arab scholars draw on his work 63
classical grid system 127, 130
rules of cartography 12
‘superior’ projection 127
worked at the Great Library of Alexandria 22
world’s first modern cartographer 35
Almagest 35
Geographia 34–5, 36, 37, 39, 41, 103–4, 105, 111, 119, 130
Ptolemy XIV 32
Public Carriage Office 412
Public Health Act (1848) 224
Public Health Amendment Act (1890) 278
Pythagoras 25
Queen Alexandra Range 268
Queen Mary Land 268
railways
Raines, Claude 321
Ramsden, Jesse 186–7
Ramusio, Giovanni 79
Ransome, Arthur 246
Rasmussen, Jens 425
Rasmussen, Lars 425
Ratoff, Gregory 322
Rauch, Nicolas 90
Ravenna, Italy 66
Reade, William Winwood 214, 215
Red Cross 404
Red Sea
in the Beatus Map 67
in Psalter Map 67
Redouté, Pierre-Joseph 353–4
Reese, William 101, 358–60, 361–2
Reeves, Elwood 402
Reinecke, Johann 207
Revelation of St John 66
Rhineland (Baedeker) 303
Rhodes: on Eratosthenes’s map 27, 29
Richard of Battle (Richard de Bello) 54
Richard of Chichester, St 67
Richard of Haldingham and Lafford 54
Richard the Lionheart 70
Richmond, Duke of 187
Ringmann, Matthias 113
Ristow, Walter W. 248
Robinson, Arthur 133
Rodgers, Will 323
Roger II, King of Sicily 64
role-playing games 406–8
Roman Empire 33, 39, 40, 46, 143
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 328, 328, 329, 332, 349
Rose, Frederick Walrond 163, 164
Ross, Sir James Clark 222, 266–7, 268, 271, 272
Ross, Sir John 267
Ross Sea 268
Rostok (Russian frigate) 264
Rowling, J. K. 319–20
Rowntree, Joseph 275
Roy, General William 182, 184, 186–7, 189, 192
Royal Company Island 262–3
Royal Geographical Society 133, 199, 205, 221, 222
Royal Library, Copenhagen 363
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 189
Royal Society 179, 186, 187, 189, 263
Royal Society of Victoria 234, 235
Royal Statistical Society 275
Royds, Charles 258
Russia
and GPS 378n
in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 143 see also USSR
Russland (Baedeker) 305
St Albans abbey 58
St Bride’s church 180
St Dié, France 113
St Mark’s Square, Venice 75, 85
St Paul’s Cathedral, London 60, 174, 176
Sanson, Nicolas 123
Santa Barbara, California 367, 368, 369
Santa Monica pier 322
Sartorius Island 265
satellite navigation 19, 85, 318, 327, 330–31, 427 see also GPS
Saturday Night Live 322
Saxton, Christopher 183
Sayer, Robert 183
Sayers, Dorothy L. 74
Scacchi, Greta 239
Scher, Paula 440
Schiaparelli, Giovanni 389, 390, 391
Schnitzer, Johannes 36
Schwartz, Seymour 118
Scoresby, Captain William, Jnr 250–51
Scotland
the Blaeu Atlas Maior on 148
Jacobite Uprising (1745) 183–4
Matthew Paris’s strip map 62
Roy’s survey (1747–55) 184
Strabo’s comments 33
and the Treasure Island map 250
Vinland Map 92
Scott, Captain Robert
Falcon 255, 256, 258, 259, 263, 270, 271, 272, 314n
Scott microprobe 393n
Scull, Anthony John 363
Scylla 48
Sea of George the Fourth 266
Sea of Tranquillity, Moon 86
Seaver, Kirsten 101
Second Boer War (1899–1902) 254
Second Life 407
Second World War 180, 303, 306, 307, 347
Selkirk, Alexander 222
Seller, John 170
Selsey, Sussex 385
Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877 163–4, 164
Seven Wonders of the World 24
Seymour, Robert 225
Shackleton, Ernest Henry 222, 255, 256, 265, 271, 425
Shepard, Alan 86
Shonibare, Yinka 346
Sicily
Paris’s strip map 60
Strabo on 33
Silicon Graphics 429
Silver Map of Drake’s Voyage 135–9, 136
Simpsons, The 322
Sims, The 406
Singh, Nain 193
Sinus Sabaeus, Mars 391
Skelton, R. A. 95, 97, 98–9, 186–7
Skelton, Reginald W. 258
Skyrim 395–97, 396, 398, 406, 407, 409
Smiley, Edward Forbes, III 360–62, 361, 364
Smith, Captain John 362
Smith, William 264
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 100
Snakes on a Plane (film) 316
Snow, Dr John 223–6, 224, 227, 228–33
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 193n
Soho, London 223, 226, 227, 229
Solinus 46
Sorkin, Aaron 132
Sotheby’s, London 42, 44, 45, 143
Sotheby’s, New York 365
Sotheby’s (realty) 323
South America
Columbus lands in 107, 117, 118
and Forlani 143
Mercator’s map 132
as part of Gondwana 260
Cabot’s explorations 83
as Terra Incognita/Nova/Papagalli 119
and Vespucci 117
South Pole 181, 261, 270, 272, 273, 314n, 344
South Pole Traverse 272
South Shetland Islands 264
Southern Ocean 264
Space Invaders 406
Spanish Empire 160
Spanish Netherlands 161
speed cameras 382
Speed, John 172, 183, 353, 363
Speke, John 210
Spencer’s Strait 265
Spielberg, Steven 315–16
stadion (pl. stades) (unit of measurement) 29, 33
Standard Oil 351
Stanfords map and travel store, Covent Garden, London 153, 170, 304, 343, 441
Stanley, Henry Morton 65, 204, 210, 214, 216, 218, 425
Stanleyville (now Kisangani, DRC) 217
Starke, Mariana 299
StarLine tours 322–3
Steinberg, Saul: Manhattanite’s view of the world 438, 438
Stench Point 268
Stent, Peter 168
stereographic projection 127
Stevenson, David 250
Stevenson, Robert Louis 240, 243–6, 244, 249–50, 253, 269
Stevenson, Robert, Snr 250, 251
Stewart, James 321
Geographica 32–34
Straits of Magellan 138
Strangers on a Train (film) 316
Stringer, Peter 367
strip maps
of John Ogilby 177, 179–80, 179, 183, 298
of Matthew Paris 58, 59, 60–62, 61
stroke patients 421
Sturt, Charles 235
Suleiman the Magnificent 353
Sumeru mountain 65
Sun Microsystems 431
sundials 29
Super Mario 406
surveyors 50, 173, 174, 177, 182, 190–91, 192, 194, 195, 201, 238, 280
Swain’s Island 262–3
Swan, Robert 272
Swift, Jonathan 211
Swinfield, Richard 54
Syene (now Aswan, Egypt) 29
symbols
lack of standardisation 183
Ordnance Survey 194, 198, 198, 199
Syria, killings in (2012) 442
Syrtis Major, Mars 390
T-O (‘T within an O’) maps 49, 49
Tables géographiques reduites en un jeu de cartes, Les 400–401
Taino tribe 107
Taylor Glacier 273
Tehran Conference 349
Tele Atlas 380n, 383–4, 430, 434, 442
telescopes 182, 184, 385, 387, 388, 388, 390
Temixtitan 120
temporal lobe 421
Terkla, Dan 54
Terra Nova expedition (1910) 259, 269
Terra S Crucis (Land of the Holy Cross) 112
terrestrial magnetism 266
Terror (ship) 267
Thames River 67, 167, 168, 176, 225, 232
Thatcher, Margaret 51
theodolites 182, 184, 186, 192
Theroux, Paul 270–71
Third Crusade 70
Third Reich 418n
Thomas Cook bureaux 310
Thompson, Dugald (‘Ken Thomas’) 325, 326
Thompson, Jack 239
Thompson, Commander ‘Tommy’ 348
Thornton, Abraham 200–203
Thule island 28
Thury, César-François Cassini de 131
Tierra del Fuego 137, 138, 261, 262
Tiller, Canon John 45
‘time-dependent’ process 420
Times Atlas, The 152–4, 153, 221
Tisdale, Elkanah 166
Tissot Indicatrix of Distortion 134
Titanic (film) 316
TomTom 318, 375–6, 380, 383, 434
Tooker, Arthur 170
Top Trumps 400
Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo 105–6
Tower of Babel 46
Tower of London 186
tractography 421
Transport for London 19
Transylvania 143
Trapezoidal projection 127
treasure maps 240–54
archive at Library of Congress 248
Dublin map in Ulysses 246–7
Knight’s Trinidad 240–42
Paine’s survey 242–3
trees, mapping 430
triangulation 18, 186, 187, 187, 192, 193, 390
trilateration, advanced 374
Trinidad, south Atlantic 240–41, 242, 246, 251–4, 252, 255–6, 258, 267, 269
TripAdvisor 310
Tropics, and projections 127
Tunnels of Doom 409
Twitter Trendsmap 436–7
Ui-te-Rangiora 260
Ultima 409
United Nations (UN) 442
Security Council 343
United States
and GPS 378n
Lottery Octopus 165
post-war re-invention of tourism 307 see also America
United States Geological Survey 392
Universal Penny Post 203
University College London (UCL) 411, 413, 417
University of California 367
University of Exeter 432
University of Kansas 367
University of Zaragoza 416n
urban planning 26
US Department of Defense 378
US Geological Survey 273
US Navy Transit system 379
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) perceived menace of 133 see also Russia
Utrilla, Pilar 416n
V2 rockets 374
Valentino, Rudolf 321
Van de Krogt, Peter 149
Van den Keere, Pieter 168, 168
Venice 41, 48, 70, 75–76, 83–85, 84, 105, 143
Vespucci, Amerigo (Americus Vesputius) 112, 115–20, 115, 118, 425, 430
Vetter, Christoph 437
Victoria, Queen 223
Victorian postcards 438
video games 395–400, 396, 399, 405–6, 408–9
Viking craft 392
Vikings, and the Vinland Map 87, 90, 91
Vincent de Beauvais:
Speculum Historiale 96, 97, 98
Vinland (Wineland) 88, 90, 91, 93
Vinland Map 87, 88, 90–102, 93, 97, 358
in the Beinecke Library 99, 102
described 92–3
examined by experts 94–5, 98–101
Ferrajoli’s involvement 90–91, 94, 95, 97
inscription on the back of the map 94
Paul Mellon buys 98
significance 91
Witten buys 94
Witten’s belief in its authenticity 91–92
Witten’s find 87
Virginia Springs 304n
Virtual Earth 435
Visscher, Claes Janszoon 161, 353
Vizcaino, Sebastian 124
Volgograd, Russia 78
Voronoi diagram 228
Waddington & Co 403, 404, 405n
Waldseemüller, Martin 113, 116, 141–42, 146
Waldseemüller map 104, 112–15, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119
Warden, Peter 432
Wasp (a schooner) 221
Watson, Lieutenant-Colonel David 184
Waugh, Colonel Andrew 193
Weber Costello 334
Weismuller, Johnny 320
Wells, H. G. 389
Wendover, Roger 60
Wentworth, William 234–5
West Africa
Behaim’s Erdapfel globe 338
De Mosto’s inroads 83
West Wing, The 132
Westminster Abbey 209
Westrem, Scott D. 55
Wheeler, Sara 273
Whitehead, Henry 229, 230, 232
Whitfield, Peter 67
WikiMapia 442
Wikipedia 122
Wilberforce, William 205
Wilhelm I, Kaiser 163
Wills, William John 235–9, 236, 238
Wilson, Edward A. 255–6, 258–9, 270
Wilson, James 340
Winkel Triple Projection 134
Witten, Laurence 87, 90–100, 97
Woad, Geoff 316
Wolfegg Castle, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 102, 119n
women, and map-reading 366–71
woodblocks/woodcuts 84, 84, 85, 103, 105, 112, 142, 261
Woolwich ‘Dust Hole’, London 277
Wren, Sir Christopher 176, 180
Wright, Edward 131
Xi’an, China 81
Yahoo Maps 435
Yale University 100, 354, 358, 359, 360, 362
Yale University Library 96, 98, 99
Yandruwandha tribe 238
yellow fever 231
Young Folks magazine 245
Yucatan, Mexico 120
Zaragoza Cathedral 98
Zeno, Antonio 101n
Zeno, Nicolo 101n
Zipangu (Japan) 111
Zork! 408
Zuckerberg, Mark 16–17