Exploring the explorers’ maps - Dr Katherine Parker

Maps and mapping play a central part in many expeditions. They help participants to plan and to plot where they’ve been. Explorers also produce their own original maps and we have an extensive collection of these in our library at the Society.

This talk will discuss such maps with a special emphasis on the collaborative effort that goes into creating them, an effort that often included Indigenous peoples. It asks what stories we can and should tell with explorers’ maps?