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How many places are there on Earth which are still off the map? Can you chart – or at least capture - the clouds in the sky? And when the first ‘complete’ atlas of continents and islands appeared at the end of the 19th Century, what did it mean for native peoples, empires and the boundaries of our imagination? Some of the questions Samira Ahmed poses to science historian Rosalind Williams, social geographer Alastair Bonnett and Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde. ( Map illustration by Shan Pillay )
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