Regret the Error

Crossed consonants: the accidental substitution of an “r” for an “x” led to the incorrect labelling of Paros and Antiparos as “Paxos” and “Antipaxos” in our map of “Greece’s Hidden Corners” (Escape, 10 May), thus relocating the latter from the Ionian to the Aegean sea.

And, furthermore, the capital of Turkey is Ankara, not Istanbul, as we said in “‘Free holiday’ scams abroad will catch out 400,000 Brits” (Cash, last week).

TS Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, so we were not technically correct in “Revealed: the remarkable tale of TS Eliot’s late love affair” (Review, last week) when we described him as having “Mississippi roots”, suggesting he hailed from the Magnolia State. However, the Mississippi River meets the Missouri River near St Louis. Link

A Champions League football report said yesterday: “As Liverpool seized a two-goal lead inside 28 minutes, we were back in the remote moonscape of the Ataturk Olympic Stadium to the west of Turkey’s capital, an unlikely setting for a magical transformation” (Defiant Liverpool shine a light in the dark of sorrow, page 2 and 3, Sport). Magical indeed, as a reader noted, as Ankara is Turkey’s capital, not Istanbul where the stadium is. Link

Gabon drifted from the west coast of Africa into the centre of the continent on a map accompanying an article about the country’s president (Papa Bongo’s 40 years in power, page 15, May 5). Link