It has been long overdue, now it's done: the old stuff is banned from the main page.
Over the years (hard to believe, it's been more than ten), quite a lot piled up which looks worn-out but still too good to throw away. You don't need it anymore - and can't (yet) let it go for good. One day, you carry it with a heavy heart to the basement or hide it in the archive.
The day has come.
The background map by John Arrowsmith opened
The London Atlas of Universal Geography, Exhibiting the Physical & Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the World which was published in 1844.
The boundaries of the continents were highlighted with colour. Hereby Australia was a part of Asia. Some hundred years earlier discovered Alaska belonged yet to the Russian Empire, and the south pole lay amid an Antarctic Ocean.
Map image ©
Cartography Associates
