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It is labeled correctly on his map, but he is recorded as saying something incorrect in the article: > Also Baffin Island in Greenland. So few people have been
by marmight 3y ago
It is labeled correctly on his map, but he is recorded as saying something incorrect in the article:
> Also Baffin Island in Greenland. So few people have been to that part of the world.
Baffin Island is in Canada. Since this would be something silly for a cartographer to get wrong, I wonder if he didn't actually say "Baffin Island and Greenland" and his response was incorrectly transcripted.
- fatnoah 3y agoFWIW, I've worked with professional cartographers, and a huge part of their focus was designing _how_ the information was displayed. They weren't specifically experts on the geography itself, though naturally they did have some steong knowledge there.