The International Map of the World

Winterbotham, H. S. L.

doi:10.2307/1780927

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“…Publication of the complete series for the whole of Brazil caused some surprise within the AGS and in other geographical societies where many were doubtful that such a task could be completed without new survey (Hinks 1923). Rumours circulated, apparently initiated by the AGS, that the scale of the CEB map would be reduced to two million in order to complete the task by the centenary date (Winterbotham 1923). Publication of all the sheets by a private organisation, compiled under the direction of Dr Francisco Bhering, provided a stunning retort to such scepticism and strengthened the argument that private organisations were better placed than state-funded national mapping agencies to complete the larger IMW project.…”

Section: The Club Engenharia Do Brasil Map (1922)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Revealing the ‘Lost World’: The American Geographical Society and the Mapping of Roraima during the 1930s

Pearson¹,

Heffernan²

2015

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This paper considers a specific mapping exercise undertaken by cartographers in the American Geographical Society during the 1930s as part of a larger project to construct a 1:1,000,000 map of Central and South America, the so-called 'Map of Hispanic America'. The particular focus is the region around Mount Roraima on the triple border point of Brazil, Venezuela and what was then British Guiana. This was one the more isolated areas of Amazonia, an apparently pristine wilderness far from the encroachments of European colonization and an area frequently depicted in the media as a 'lost world', bypassed by history and home to unknown species of flora and fauna that had survived from earlier geological periods. The compilation of a new and accurate map of Roraima presented several problems for the AGS cartographers whose desire to create a rational, scientific representation of the region was continually confronted by colorful myths and legends promoted by novelists, journalists and cinematographers.

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Section: The Club Engenharia Do Brasil Map (1922)mentioning

confidence: 99%