longreads – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:42:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg longreads – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 The Last Unmapped Places https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/02/the-last-unmapped-places/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:42:33 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3878 More]]> Lois Parshley’s essay on the last unmapped, mysterious places—Greenlandic fjords, the slums of Haiti, the ocean’s depths, black holes in space—is a long read worth reading. Originally published last month as “Here Be Dragons: Finding the Blank Spaces in a Well-Mapped World” in the Virginia Quarterly Review, it’s been reprinted by the Guardian, in an edited, tighter version, as “Faultlines, Black Holes and Glaciers: Mapping Uncharted Territories.”

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