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Geography

Maps & Mapmaking

A	Aclinic Line American Geographical Society Antarctic Circle Antipodes Arctic Circle Atlas (reference)

B	Baedeker, Karl Behaim, Martin Berry, Brian J(oe) L(obley) Bore Boundary Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowman, Isaiah

C	Caprivi Strip Christaller, Walter Continent Cosa, Juan de la

D	Davis, William Morris Disputed Areas Divide

E	Equator (geography) Eratosthenes

Fall Line

G	Gannett, Henry Gazetteer Geographic Information System Geography Globe Godwin Austen, Henry Haversham Gottmann, Jean Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey

H	Hägerstrand, Torsten Hakluyt, Richard Harbor Harrison, John Hartshorne, Richard Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph

I	Imhof, Eduard International Date Line

K	Kino, Eusebio Francisco

L	Latitude and Longitude

M	MacKinder, Sir Halford John Map Mercator, Gerardus Meridian (geography)

N	National Geographic Society North Pole

O	Ortelius, Abraham

P	Pausanias (historian) Photogrammetry Pole Prime Meridian

R	Raisz, Erwin Josephus Ratzel, Friedrich Richthofen, Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, Baron von Ritter, Carl

S	Sauer, Carl O(rtwin) Scale (map) South Pole Surveying

T	Topography Torrid Zone Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricorn Tropics

V	Varenius, Bernhardus Vidal de la Blache, Paul

W	Waldseemüller, Martin

Z	Zone (geography)

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