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The 1507 Waldseemuller map was the first to identify North and South America by that name. The map recently went on display at the Library of Congress.
After years of negotiation with hundreds of governments and institutions, the first map showing the entire range of magnetic anomalies on Earth has finally been released.
More than 50 years of data gathered by aeromagnetic surveys, research vessels, and orbiting satellites by various agencies around the globe have been compiled onto one map that is available through the Commission of the Geological Map of the World.
You can read more about it at the BBC website as well as download a low-rez version of the map as a pdf file here.
Free map from geography.About.com
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Brian- this map was made on July 18th and there has been a death in Minnesota since then. I will keep checking on the CDC to grab a newer map when they update it.
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