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An 1899 map drawn by Garwood,...

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An 1899 map drawn by Garwood, photographed from my copy of Douglas Freshfield's Round Kangchenjunga.

I added the black labels, and the location of Peak 5950. Freshfield's route is the red line, and that is on the original map.

Compare with this satellite photo of the same region.

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brendon

Old-time cartographers

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They were pretty good at what they did. It's amazing how maps of the coast are similar to satellite images today.

Artist renditions of mountains, however, always seem to have exaggerated relief. Have you noticed that?

Posted May 15, 2005 2:37 am


	Nelson	Re: Old-time cartographers
	Hasn't voted	Yes, when you compare this map with the satellite photo it is pretty amazing. I can't say that I have in general noticed artistic exaggerated relief. In this case the satellite seems exaggerated, them's big mountains! But it would make sense that an artist would be tempted to exaggerate for effect.
		Posted May 15, 2005 6:13 am