Things Maps Don't Tell Us

An Adventure into Map Interpretation

By: Armin K. Lobeck

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Paperback | 1 June 1993 | Edition Number 1

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"The book is a treasure trove of tidbits describing how the world around us came about. . . . Things Maps Don't Tell Us actually communicates a great deal about the things maps can tell us if we care to look carefully underneath the printed symbols."--James E. Young, Cartographic Perspectives

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Foreword to the 1993 Edition
Introduction
Coast Lines
Distorted Coast Lines A Map of the World of 1589
Projections and Protuberances Gulf of Mexico
Peninsulas The Peninsula of Denmark
Peninsulas The Peninsula of Florida
Peninsulas The Peninsula of Korea
Peninsulas The Peninsula of Tunisia, Africa
Peninsulas The Taranaki and Banks Peninsulas, New Zealand
Peninsulas The Peninsula of Cornwall, England
Peninsulas Saugeen Peninsula and Door Peninsula, Great Lakes Region
Peninsulas Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior
Two Similar Peninsulas Bayonne Peninsula in New York Harbor; Digby Neck, Nova Scotia
Peninsula Croton Point, Hudson River
Some Coastal Irregularities The Hudson River Shore Line
Promontories and Points Flamborough Head, England
Promontories and Points Spurn Head, England; The Skaw, Denmark; Hel Peninsula, Poland
Promontories and Points. Hooked Points Cape Cod; Monomoy Point; Sandy Hook; Rockaway Point
Promontories Bill of Portland, England; Monte Argentario, Italy
Simple, Regular Coasts Argentina; Hudson Bay; Israel; Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
Coast Lines with Barrier Islands Texas and Florida
Coast Lines with Interrupted Barrier Islands Long Island; New Jersey; Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Peninsula
Embayed or Estuarine Coasts The Chesapeake Bay Region: the Northwest Coast of Spain
Fiord Coasts Norway, Alaska, Chile, New Zealand
Straits The Narrows, New York Harbor
Straits The Straits of Dover
Islands
Linear Islands and Peninsulas The Maine Coast; Southwest Ireland; the Dalmatian Coast
Linear Islands Anticosti in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Öoland and Gotland in the Baltic Sea
Linear Islands Long Island, New York
Arcuate Islands Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
Elliptical Islands The Islands of Boston Bay
Rectangular and Straight-Sided Islands Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti; Corsica and Sardinia; Madagascar
Zigzag Islands The Dalmatian Islands in the Adriatic Sea; Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay
Island Chains or Island Arcs The Aleutians and Other Island Arcs of the Pacific
Islands. A Double Chain The Lesser Antilles
Oceanic Islands Atolls of the Pacific Ocean
Oceanic Islands The Hawaiian Islands
Isolated Islands Sable Island off Nova Scotia
Rivers General Remarks
River Embayments The Delaware (Delaware Bay); the Susquehanna (Chesapeake Bay), and the Potomac
River Locations The Missouri and the Ohio
River Locations Piedmont Rivers. The San Joaquin, the Po, and the Danube Rivers
River Patterns. Parallel Rivers The Rivers of Northern France
River Patterns. Parallel Rivers Rivers of the Atlantic Seaboard; Some Rivers of Nebraska
River Patterns. More Parallel Rivers Yazoo Type. The Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers
River Patterns. Trellis Rivers Pennsylvania
River Patterns. Rectangular Rivers The Adirondack Mountains
River Patterns. Radial Rivers Mount Rainier
River Patterns. More Radial Rivers Southern France
River Patterns. Centripetal (Center-Flowing) Streams Northern France
River Patterns. Ring-Like or Annular Rivers South Dakota
River Patterns. Irregularity Branching or Dendritic Streams Western Pennsylvania
Interrupted or "Lost" Rivers Southern Indiana; Yugoslavia
More Interrupted Rivers Nevada; Mexico; Persia; Australia
Water Gaps Delaware Gap; Susquehanna Water Gaps
Water Gaps and Wind Gaps The Blue Ridge, Virginia
More Water Gaps Columbia River Dalles Across the Cascade Mountains; Sevier River Gap, Utah
River Sources. Hot Springs a
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