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Imogen Wegman, The Conversation

How early Australian settlers used maps to show colonial superiority over indigenous people

Colonial maps excluded reference to any indigenous people, despite surveyors having encountered them on several occasions.

Imogen Wegman, The Conversation
· May 30, 2021 · 11:30 pm
A Belgian farmer accidentally annexed France by moving a rock. What does it say about borders?

Man-made boundaries are fragile. They contradict the apparent solidity in an atlas or on Google Maps.

Imogen Wegman, The Conversation
· May 11, 2021 · 11:30 pm