National Geographic cartographers fill a key map gap on the North American Continental Divide and pay tribute to the Father of American Mapmaking A portion of the Trails Illustrated Wind River Range ...

It didn’t take long for National Geographic Explorer Marc Bierkens to catch what he calls “the research virus,” at his first hydrology internship. A graduate student at Wageningen University in his ...

Before electronic navigation systems, getting around wasn’t always easy. Paper maps, printouts from MapQuest, and TripTiks from AAA (remember those?) helped people find their way, but it wasn’t always ...

Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Text, with colored map and illustrations, show Africa's wildlife and biological geography. Insets: Cape Verde -- Seychelles -- Mauritius -- [location map].

From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have shared the expanse of our world with readers for well over a century.

Includes text, col. ill., portraits of notable American Indians, and four ancillary maps documenting the transfer of land from Native Americans to non-Indians. Alaska and Hawaii shown out of context. ...