It’s hardly a fail on the scale of Apple Maps – with its farm-labeled-as-an-airport fiasco and other such mishaps – but it will nevertheless be refreshing for some people to learn that Google, widely ...

AN OBSCURE piece of land located in the South Pacific has had experts baffled as it vanished from the face of the Earth after appearing on maps for 200 years. Dubbed the “phantom island”, Sandy Island ...

Last month, a group of Australian scientists studying plate tectonics in the Coral Sea noticed that a small, uninhabited Pacific island appeared on some of their charts, but not on others. Labeled ...

Thomas Jefferys, “Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish settlements in North America, and the West Indies” (London, 1768) (courtesy Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the ...

Cartography is a delicate skill. Making maps requires careful charting of landmasses, rivers, mountains, and all kinds of terrain. Before satellite imagery, this was much more difficult. For instance, ...

It is unlikely you'll visit just one island while vacationing on the Galápagos Islands. Each of the archipelago's 20 main islands is home to a variety of natural wonders (like beaches and towering ...