Cartography

Minnesota's "Lost Forty" survived the lumberjack's ax thanks to a improperly drawn lake.

A representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early-20th-century indigenous African cartography.

The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.

James Niehues has spent decades painting finicky trails.

When Cameroon and Nigeria settled their long-standing border dispute, it was just the beginning. Then a 21st-century border had to be laid down.

From a distance, European mapmakers documenting North America often perpetuated strategic myths of oceans, lakes, and rivers.

Using secret tools, and under cover of night, Indian "pundits" charted land for the British.