We get a lot of letters at National Geographic. Recently we received several from readers insisting that William Lascelles’s photograph on the February 2010 Your Shot page was a fake. Our readers were right. The Your Shot rules specify, “Please provide only the original, unmodified camera image.” Lascelles submitted a nicely composed picture showing a [...]
From a blog post by a National Geographic copydesk director David Brindley: …Our article “Arctic Landgrab†highlights the cutting-edge cartography used to map the bottom of the Arctic Ocean—and the race to stake claims on the oil that may lie beneath. Our cartographers spent months on the nine pages of maps in the article, poring [...]
The map on page 101 misplaced Albuquerque, New Mexico, and omitted Santa Fe. Ponderosa pine seeds were incorrectly described as wingless on page 102; they do have small wings. And: The birds flying across the map of Japan on Page 140 are whooping cranes, native only to North America. Thanks, Jim! Report an error
