Cartographic tricks and phantom places
Legendary kingdoms that shaped history
Pop culture nations and political satire
Masterpieces of fantasy cartography
schopenhauer Martin Coles Harman established a self-proclaimed kingdom on Lundy Island.
schopenhauer A cartographer sneaked a fictional mountain onto official government maps
schopenhauer Spot fake landmarks to discover how cartographers use fictional geography to trap copycats.
schopenhauer In the 1930s, Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers invented Agloe to catch copycats, but a store later opened at those coordinates.
What real-world landmark was built at the coordinates of Agloe, New York, because it appeared on maps?
Which mapmaking company's founders invented the fictional town of Agloe, New York, as a copyright trap?
schopenhauer The whaling ship Velocity first charted this phantom Pacific island in 1876
Which ship first recorded the existence of the non-existent Sandy Island in 1876?
In which body of water was the phantom Sandy Island mapped for over a century before being disproven in 2012?
Agloe's surprise: A fake town created by cartographers actually became a physical place with a general store because people believed the map [1].
In which US state did a cartographer sneakily add the fake Mount Richard to an official map in the 1970s?
Who was the fake Mount Richard named after when it was sneaked onto an official USGS map?
A fictional town or settlement added to a map by cartographers to detect copyright infringement. Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers created the fake settlement of Agloe, New York, in the 1930s.
What bird was featured on the unauthorized coins issued by Martin Coles Harman on Lundy Island?