It’s hardly a fail on the scale of Apple Maps – with its farm-labeled-as-an-airport fiasco and other such mishaps – but it will nevertheless be refreshing for some people to learn that Google, widely ...

Cartography is a delicate skill. Making maps requires careful charting of landmasses, rivers, mountains, and all kinds of terrain. Before satellite imagery, this was much more difficult. For instance, ...

Thomas Jefferys, “Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish settlements in North America, and the West Indies” (London, 1768) (courtesy Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the ...

The year is 1973, and a ragtag group of U.S. military officials, scientists, and monster hunters set off on a special mission to map a newly discovered island with a very large secret. That’s the plot ...

Last month, a group of Australian scientists studying plate tectonics in the Coral Sea noticed that a small, uninhabited Pacific island appeared on some of their charts, but not on others. Labeled ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The maps of California as an island come from a new collection of 800 maps recently added to the Stanford Libraries. They were collected by Glen ...

Extra! Extra! Stop the presses! The mystery of Kellogg Island has been solved! OK, so you might not remember that a search for – and the mystery of – the namesake of Kellogg Island was discussed on an ...

It is unlikely you'll visit just one island while vacationing on the Galápagos Islands. Each of the archipelago's 20 main islands is home to a variety of natural wonders (like beaches and towering ...