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Re:Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mi... by Papachooka on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @09:51AM (#11526889)
I've heard of indigenous maps scaled by time of travel rather than physical distances. Maybe that's why these Inuit maps look distorted.

I've never seen such maps (only heard of them), so if anyone has a link to such a map I'd be interested.

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