I was watching a programme on TV last night about the Arctic and the lost Franklin expedition in the nineteenth century and I got around to thinking that when I was at school in the 1970s we were using atlases that still showed large areas of the Arctic as being unexplored.
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- 09 Oct. 2008 @ 09:08:40
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lee954
- 09 Oct. 2008 @ 09:34:35
These weren't particularly old atlases; it's just that at the time many areas of the Arctic were still not charted properly; and areas in the far north of the USSR such as Novaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands were closed military areas and so maps were hard to come by in the West.
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- 09 Oct. 2008 @ 09:38:37
Oh I see; a wrong assumption on my part. I still wonder about the accuracy of some maps, particularly those from the old Eastern Block countries...
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freeasthewind
- 09 Oct. 2008 @ 11:46:43
You I was watching one of those shows the other night. And thought how much was left unknown when we were in school. And now all we have to do is turn on the old set and learn so much more. The kids now get to see and know more than was in our books. So much to learn so little time
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I know just what you mean. I still have an old school atlas (to my shame, I pinched it because I was really fascinated by all those foreign places) that shows huge parts of the world in red... The British Empire... much of wasn't by the 1960s. Looking inside the front cover of the atlas reveals the date of publication as 1934 - I wonder how many of the other school books we used at the time had such a long history? We were hardly keeping abreast of the times!