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Subject:        Mapping Mannahatta The New Yorker
Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:15:43 -0400 (EDT)
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/10/01/slideshow_071001_maps

This is currently on The New Yorker Website, for the 10/1 issue. There is a nice slide show (11 slides).


Mapping Mannahatta
    October 1, 2007


In this week’s issue, Nick Paumgarten writes about Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society who is trying to determine exactly how Manhattan—or Mannahatta, “land of many hills,” as some scholars have translated the name used by the Lenape people who inhabited it—looked before the arrival of Europeans. The project is set for completion in 2009, the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s 1609 visit to the island, and will include a coffee-table book, interactive exhibits, a series of printed street guides, and a three-dimensional virtual re-creation. Here is a portfolio of images from the project thus far, including the maps that inspired it and new computer-generated illustrations of the hills and forests that once covered the island.

    To learn more about the project, visit www.wcs.org/mannahatta.

Lucy M. Rowland, MS, MLS, CNU
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