When he was 12, his father, a cartographer, took a job in Enschede, a Dutch city near the German border.

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Simultaneously, Annie gets close to Isabelle's husband, Eldon, a frustrated armchair cartographer who lets her into his fantasy world of polar exploration.

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Christopher Columbus might never have sailed to America in 1492 had his cartographer brother Bartholomeo not copied some Portuguese maps from a secret archive.

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The mountains were first sketched in 1798 by the highly regarded English cartographer James Rennell, a man already famous for mapping large parts of India.

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Cliff Mugnier, a 68-year-old surveyor and cartographer in Baton Rouge, La.

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Cosmography is a term also associated with the Flemish cartographer, Mercator, who published his own atlas that included corrected versions of the maps first produced by Ptolemy.

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The Bells were very rich: but it was not money that got Gertrude a First at Oxford, or helped her survive encounters with murderous tribes in the desert, or made her a spy or a major in the British army, or qualified her as poet, scholar, historian, mountaineer, photographer, archaeologist, gardener, cartographer, linguist, and distinguished servant of the state.

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