Map: European Exploration of the Pacific Ocean
From Ferdinand Magellan to James Cook
Visualizing Countries by Share of Earth’s Surface
The world’s countries by their share of Earth’s surface
Map: The Seven Years’ War
Setting the stage for the American Revolution
Map: The Exploration of the World
How surprisingly long it took for Western explorers to reach northern North America, the poles, the Amazon and Congo rainforests, and South East Asia
Map: Every Year of the Crusades
By 1204, virtually all territory captured by the Crusaders had been lost and they turned to sacking and pillaging Constantinople
Map: EU Exclusive Fishing Zone
Access to the UK’s exclusive fishing territory is proving to be one of the remains sticking point in any UK-EU post-Brexit trade agreement
Map: Every Day of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War
Modern warfare
Map: The Territorial History of France
From the Kingdom of Clovis I shortly after the fall of the Western Roman Empire through 2020
The Vast Unmapped Seafloor
Most of the terrain of Planet Earth remains unexplored and unmapped
Map of the Great Medieval Voyages of Exploration
The estimated routes taken by various Medieval explorers from Erik the Red and Marco Polo to the Berber explorer Ibn Battuta