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An 1832 map of Perth by James Gardner. It shows only one bridge (Perth Bridge) crossing the Tay. Tay Street had not yet been built, though some buildings exist on what would be its western side. St John's Kirk is marked. King James I of Scotland was assassinated in Perth in 1437, by followers of Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, at Blackfriars ...
Perth "The Fair City" – in reference to Sir Walter Scott's novel The Fair Maid of Perth [91] Plymouth "Ocean City" – rebranded by Plymouth City Council as of 2013. [152] "Spirit of Discovery" – local council backed tag for the city, which relates to the Pilgrim Fathers, who departed from Plymouth for America in the 17th century. [153]
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Map of Scotland showing the province of Strathearn. Strathearn or Strath Earn (/ s t r æ θ ˈ ɜːr n /), also the Earn Valley, is the strath of the River Earn, which flows from Loch Earn to meet the River Tay in the east of Scotland. The area covers the 30 mile stretch of the river, containing a number of settlements in Perthshire. [1]
On his 1506 world map, Giovanni Contarini called the land later called America by Waldseemüller the Antipodes. [ 8 ] Waldseemüller drew upon the 1506 world map of Nicolaus de Caverio , where an inscription off the coast of vera cruz (America/Brazil) says: "The land called Vera Cruz was found by Pedro Álvares Cabral, a gentleman of the ...
Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders; the purpose of the physical map is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type, or land use including infrastructures such as roads, railroads, and buildings. Topographic maps show elevations and relief with contour lines or shading.