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Map: Falkland Islands, 1768

Falkland Islands 1798

 

This map was drawn by Thomas Boutflower. He was the purser on the ship HMS Carcass, and not a professional cartographer.

Look at the map and decide which of the following you think shows this:

     
 
the colouring
the distorted shape of the coast
the fact that south is at the top of the map
the size of the map
 
     

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