{"id":1788848,"date":"2020-05-26T11:57:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788848"},"modified":"2020-05-26T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T15:57:58","slug":"maps-of-antarctica-at-the-british-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/05\/maps-of-antarctica-at-the-british-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps of Antarctica at the British Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cSouth Polar Chart,\u201d The Scottish Geographical Magazine<\/em> (1898). BL Maps 162.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two recent posts at the British Library\u2019s Maps and Views Blog provide \u201ca whistle-stop tour through maps held in the British Library that chart Antarctica\u2019s gradual emergence from obscurity into light.\u201d The first<\/a> covers maps of Antarctica through the nineteenth century, when the continent went from unknown to unexplored; the second<\/a> the twentieth century, where maps of the continent \u201c[reflect] the switch made by cartography to digital data from the latter part of the twentieth century.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two recent posts at the British Library\u2019s Maps and Views Blog provide \u201ca whistle-stop tour through maps held in the British Library that chart Antarctica\u2019s gradual emergence from obscurity into light.\u201d The first covers maps… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[841,109,48],"class_list":["post-1788848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-antarctica","tag-british-library","tag-libraries","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":927906,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/early-radar-maps-of-antarctica-digitized\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788848,"position":0},"title":"Early Radar Maps of Antarctica Digitized","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 December 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Nature: \"Glaciologists will soon have a treasure trove of data for exploring how Antarctica\u2019s underbelly\u00a0has changed over nearly half a century. 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