Old maps were pricey and precious ... made the Carta marina—he also first dubbed the continents across the Atlantic “the Americas.”) Of course, Europe doesn’t have a monopoly on ...

That all changed thanks to the work of Marie Tharp. Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps ...

KING: The Atlantic’s project on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. A security guard walked over to look at the old map. “Florida,” he said with a point and a smile. The map had been ...