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Maps & Mapmaking

A	Aclinic Line Antarctic Circle Arctic Circle Atlas (reference)

B	Baedeker, Karl Bearings (navigation) Behaim, Martin Bore Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowman, Isaiah

C	Cartography Cartography, History of Compass Compass Points Contour Lines Cosa, Juan de la Cosmas Cross-Sections

D	Davis, William Morris Disputed Areas Divide

E	Equator (geography) Eratosthenes Everest, Sir George

G	Gannett, Henry Gazetteer Geodesy Globe Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham Great Circle Great Trigonometrical Survey of India Greenwich Meridian Grid References Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey

H	Hakluyt, Richard Harbour Harrison, John

I	Imhof, Eduard International Date Line

K	Kino, Eusebio Francisco

L	Lambton, William Latitude and Longitude Legend (cartography)

M	Map Map Projections Map Reading Mercator, Gerardus Meridian

N	National Geographic Society North Pole

O	Ordnance Survey of Great Britain Ortelius, Abraham

P	Pausanias (historian) Photogrammetry Pole

R	Regiomontanus Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von

S	Sauer, Carl O(rtwin) Scale (cartography) South Pole Surveying

T	Theodolite Thompson, David Topography Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricorn Tropics

V	Varenius, Bernhardus Vidal de la Blache, Paul

W	Waldseemüller, Martin

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