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James Cook

James Cook was an English cartographer and explorer active in the 18th century. His detailed surveys of the Pacific Ocea...

18TH Century Exploration Survey English

9.6 Brilliant

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Charles Joseph Minard

Charles Joseph Minard was a French cartographer active in the 19th century. He is particularly recognized for his innova...

French 19TH Century Thematic Flow Map

9.4 Excellent

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David Thompson

David Thompson was a 18th-century cartographer employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company. He undertook extensive surveying an...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Northwest

9.3 Excellent

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Charles Minard

Charles Minard was a French cartographer active in the 19th century. He is most recognized for his innovative 1869 flow...

French 19TH Century Statistical Thematic

9.3 Excellent

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Matthew Fontaine Maury

Matthew Fontaine Maury was a 19th-century American cartographer specializing in physical geography and oceanography. He...

American 19TH Century Physical Geography Ocean Chart

9.2 Excellent

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Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders was an English cartographer renowned for his detailed surveys of Australia during the late 18th century...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Australia

9.1 Excellent

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Henry Gannett

Henry Gannett was an American cartographer instrumental in shaping modern surveying techniques. His long tenure as chief...

American Survey 19TH Century Usgs

9.0 Excellent

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Aaron Arrowsmith

Aaron Arrowsmith was an 18th-century English cartographer renowned for his meticulously crafted large format atlases and...

18TH Century Exploration Large Format English

8.9 Great

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Augustus Petermann

Augustus Petermann was a 19th-century German cartographer renowned for his detailed explorations of Arctic regions. His...

19TH Century Arctic Thematic German English

8.9 Great

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John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell was an American geologist and cartographer instrumental in understanding the American West. His 1869...

American Survey 19TH Century Canyon

8.9 Great

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Karl Ritter

Karl Ritter was a 19th-century German cartographer and academic known for his rigorous approach to physical geography. H...

German Academic 19TH Century Physical

8.8 Great

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George Vancouver

George Vancouver was an English cartographer and Royal Navy officer instrumental in charting the Pacific Coast during th...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific Coast

8.8 Great

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Alejandro Malaspina

Alejandro Malaspina was an Italian-born Spanish naval officer who led a major scientific expedition between 1789 and 179...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific

8.5 Great

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John Arrowsmith

John Arrowsmith (1790–1873) was a British cartographer who inherited his uncle's mapping firm and produced an influentia...

Exploration 19TH Century English Atlas

8.2 Great

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George Bellas Greenough

British geologist and cartographer (1778–1855) who produced a geological map of England and Wales in 1820 and was a foun...

Survey 19TH Century English Geological Map

8.0 Great

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George Mercer Dawson

George Mercer Dawson was a prominent 19th-century Canadian geologist who conducted extensive topographical and geologica...

Survey Canadian 19TH Century Canada

8.0 Great

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Charles Preuss

German-American cartographer (1803–1854) who served as topographer on Frémont's western expeditions and produced detaile...

Exploration 19TH Century West German American

7.8 Good

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Ferdinand von Richthofen

German geographer (1833–1905) who coined the term Silk Road (Seidenstraße) in 1877 and conducted extensive geographical...

German Exploration China 19TH Century

7.8 Good

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John Charles Frémont

American explorer and military officer (1813–1890) who led multiple expeditions mapping the American West in the 1840s,...

Exploration American Survey 19TH Century

7.5 Good

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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

American geographer and ethnologist (1793–1864) who in 1832 identified Lake Itasca in present-day Minnesota as the true...

American 19TH Century Native American Explorer

6.4 Fair