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A landmark 1963 geological map of the Arabian Peninsula. Produced through a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and Aramco, and sponsored by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Petroleum and the U.S. Department of State, this map brought together decades of fieldwork, aerial photography, and geological surveys into the first coherent, peninsula-wide geological profile of the region. Covering Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, it became a definiti

Explore Abraham Ortelius’s famous map of the northern Atlantic regions titled: Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip. This antique map is from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas and shows Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and parts of North America in great detail. The map also shows many mythical islands: the islands of Hy Brasil & st Brendan from Celtic mythology, Drogeo believed to represent Newfoundland, Frisland which is just off the coast of Iceland, and Groclandt. The