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Alexander Pescud spent more than 500 hours<\/a> drawing the Wollongong Map<\/a>, a black-and-white panoramic map of the Australian city of Wollongong. I\u2019ve been told that the map will have its official launch on 22 June at the Gong\u2019s Bad News Gallery<\/a>. Prints are available for sale<\/a>, naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Pescud spent more than 500 hours drawing the Wollongong Map, a black-and-white panoramic map of the Australian city of Wollongong. I\u2019ve been told that the map will have its official launch on 22 June… 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":[49],"tags":[496,891,54,1363,1621],"class_list":["post-1815690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-australia","tag-birdseye","tag-cities","tag-panoramic-maps","tag-wollongong","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787592,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/heinrich-c-berann\/","url_meta":{"origin":1815690,"position":0},"title":"Heinrich C. 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