'Alternative Maps' dives into the craziest cartography stories
It may or may not surprise you to know humans have done a bad job at mapping our planet.
The entire world once thought California was its own island, and we still know less about the bottom of the ocean than we do the topography of Mars (I never said we were bad at mapping other planets).
In Mashable’s new Facebook Watch show Alternative Maps, WWE star Chris Jericho charts the biggest cartography blunders form the time of explorers to modern Satellite and GPS.
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New episodes are released every Thursday at 3 p.m. ET, giving you quick lessons in history, geography, and even politics that you've never heard before.
Check out the first two episodes below.
Episode 101: Did the CIA Assassinate an Island?
Bermeja is an island that may or may not have existed but nobody even thought to double check until millions upon millions of barrels of oil were on the line.
Episode 102: Map Traps & Paper Towns
Cartography is difficult, it's way easier just to copy someone else's map. To combat this mapmakers would invent fake towns and roads but what happened when one of these fake towns suddenly became real?
Be sure to follow for more episodes of Alternative Maps here.
