This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History ... of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map, the first that any European had ever encountered showing all the major ...

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.

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.