A 1736 map of Scotland—with Shetland in a box. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center/Flickr Shetland, a cluster of more than 100 islands far north of the Scottish mainland, has long presented cartographers ...
Explore knitting, jewelry design, and more in this Scottish archipelago. The Shetland Islands lie between Scotland and Norway, where the North Sea meets the Atlantic. They are part of the archipelago ...
Nobody puts Baby in a corner, as Dirty Dancing taught us, but when it comes to cartography, stuff gets relegated to the corner of the map all the time. During the Age of Exploration, map corners were ...