#1493: nationalgeographic, glaciers, oldmaps

Mon, 18 Jan 2021, last check: Wed, 25 Sep 2024. Post history

• The National Geographic Society's collection of more than 6,000 maps from the past 130 years has been assembled into a digital archive, but it is not available to the public.
  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/map-of-the-day-cartography-vintage-archive-culture
• A recent study of 225 Greenlandic glaciers beginning inland and ending in the ocean shows that none have risen while 200 have receded, in all sectors of the island.
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147728/shrinking-margins-of-greenland
• The maps in the Rijksmuseum's collection are online now that the Amsterdam Museum has digitized almost 70% of its holdings.
  https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/1684377--svenrijks/collections/cartografie?ii=0&p=0

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