Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... United States4,690,000 sq mi MAPS: RYAN MORRIS, NGM STAFF; THEODORE A. SICKLEY SOURCE: FLANDERS MARINE INSTITUTE ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

Once this photolettering process was refined, it was applied to our United States map supplement in the May 1933 National Geographic. Shortly thereafter, Society cartographer Charles E.

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