Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / October 15, 2026

What British and American Mapmakers Put on the Mosquito Coast, and What They Left Off

Leonardo Santamaria Montero spent a fellowship in the British Library's collections and came out with three named shelfmarks: Samuel Field's 1740 draught of the Mosquito Shore, Jefferys' West-Indian Atlas of 1775, Faden's Yucatan sheet of 1787. The maps agree on where the coastline runs and disagree on who lives along it, and that disagreement is the part that tells you what each mapmaker was for.

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What British and American Mapmakers Put on the Mosquito Coast, and What They Left Off
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