Nordic Map Porn: Charting Where Dragons And Other Nasties Abound

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

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… 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.

Founding Editor
  1. 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.

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