The Arctic Regions

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1925. unbound. Map. Full-color lithograph. Sheet measures 18" x 19 1/8" Fascinating map of the Arctic, featuring an Azimuthal Equidistant Projection, colored to show elevation. The map was published by the map department of the National Geographic Society for the magazine, under editor Gilbert Grosvenor, and it appeared in the November 1925 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Two insets feature conical projections depicting Spitsbergan and Franz Josef Land, and the Ellesmere Island Region. Cities, towns, islands, rivers, lakes, and topographical features are labeled. Glaciers and ice caps are depicted (truncated) pictorially, and arrows indicate warm and cold ocean currents, and courses of icebergs. Red overprint indicates the routes of explorers, and a notation near the lower margin shows the location of the Titanic's sinking. In very good condition, with minor wear along original fold lines and at edges. (Inventory #: 313834)