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Subject:        Arctic Map Exhibition
Date:   Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:35:03 +0000
From:   Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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Late notice, but an exhibition of mapping of Greenland and the Arctic at the Danish National Library in Copenhagen.

http://www.kb.dk/en/dia/udstillinger/kort.html

Maps, Myths and Narratives

Cartography of the Far North

13 July 2009 - 26 September 2009

Exciting exhibition about the cartography of the Far North

From the earliest times, maps have depicted the Far North in a seamless combination of fact and fiction. This combination is by no means unique to the Arctic - or to maps for that matter. Inn art as well as in science, meaning springs from the meeting of observation, imagination and ambition. Few media show this more clearly than the map.

Headlines:
Mythical and Early Mapping
Mapping the East Coast
Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819-1893) and the Geology of the Disko Bay
Mapping the Ice
Mapping the Rocks
Mapping for Sovereignty
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