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Centamap – launched in 1999, Centamap is built using data from the Hong Kong Government; GeoInfo Map [1] – a geospatial information service provided by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government.
De Natura Rerum, Chapter XLVIII, 2 (translation): . So the earth may be divided into three sides (trifarie), of which one part is Europe, another Asia, and the third is called Africa.
La Mesa became a training centre for army soldiers who fought for the independence cause. At La Mesa many heroes were trained, who later were killed defending their ideals by the Spanish troops, some were killed in the middle of the Main Plaza. Four times, the liberator Simón Bolivar passed by, in the years of 1821, 1826, 1828 and 1830.
The equal-area projection that results from average of sinusoidal and Mollweide y-coordinates and thereby constraining the x coordinate. 1929 Craster parabolic =Putniņš P4: Pseudocylindrical Equal-area John Craster Meridians are parabolas. Standard parallels at 36°46′N/S; parallels are unequal in spacing and scale; 2:1 aspect. 1949
Karrow, R.W. (1993), Mapmakers of the sixteenth century and their maps, Published for the Newberry Library by Speculum Orbis Press, ISBN 978-0-932757-05-0 Leitão, Henrique & Alves Gaspar, Joaquim (2014), "Globes, Rhumb Tables, and the Pre-History of the Mercator Projection", Imago Mundi , 66 (2): 180– 195, doi : 10.1080/03085694.2014.902580 ...
Southern Patagonia Ice Field from ISS, astronaut photo.North is to the right. The Southern Patagonia Ice Field extends from parallels 48° 15′ S to 51° 30′ S for approximately 350 kilometres (220 mi), and has an approximate area of 16,480 km 2 (6,360 sq mi), of which 14,200 km 2 belong to Chile and 2,600 km 2 belong to Argentina.
The British Library copy. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio (Latin: A New and Most Exact Description of America or The Fourth Part of the World) is an ornate geographical map of the Americas, made in 1562 by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez and Flemish artist Hieronymus Cock.
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language.