A century ago, National Geographic magazine started creating supplement maps, designed to adorn walls and explore every corner of our Earth in intricate detail. Here are some of the best.

These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct. Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America ...

(See pictures of our melting world in National Geographic magazine.) "You hear reports all the time in the media about this," Valdés said. "Until you have a hard-copy map in your hand, the ...

After a recent video, someone from the National Geographic Society reached out to give me an updated set of their atlases. Today I open them up to see if there's anything new worth seeing.

Within weeks the National Geographic Society announced that Sandy Island would be stricken from all of its maps, and other mapmakers followed suit. Google removed Sandy Island from its maps ...

He included National Geographic’s first published hurricane map: a sketch of the wind paths that had fomented into storms in the North Atlantic Ocean over the past two years. The lines curved ...

Both the island and its label have been removed from National Geographic digital map data and the change will be reflected in the next Atlas edition. Kerby is a trained ecologist, geographer and ...