The Power of Maps: A cartographic journey along the world’s borders. Contribution by Benjamin Hennig (University of Oxford) for the Geography New Teacher Subject Day ‘Geopolitics and borders’ . Organised by the Prince’s Teaching Institute at Altrincham Girls’ Grammar School (UK), 5th March 2016.

1. http://cartographerswithoutborders.org/
The Power of Maps
A cartographic journey along the world’s borders
Geopolitics and borders, New Teacher Subject Day for Geography, 5. March 2016
Prince’s Teaching Institute, Altrincham Girls’ Grammar School
Benjamin Hennig
Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
benjamin.hennig@ouce.ox.ac.uk | @geoviews | http://www.viewsoftheworld.net

4. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/india-and-pakistan-border-seen-under-151959 http://mashable.com/2014/02/26/space-photos-north-korea/#l2d_Aqb.VaqW

5. http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/7200/7299/7299.htmhttp://etc.usf.edu/maps/index.htm

6. http://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5691954/colonialism-collapse-gif-imperialism
& http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-formation-of-the-united-states-of-america-in-one-co-1566197764 / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States
Lines in the sand

7. http://einheitsreise.morgenpost.de/http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2013/october/borders_from_space.htm
Divisions

9. Unity?

10. Google Maps / Google StreetView
Boring Borders

11. Google Maps

12. Google Maps / Google StreetView

13. http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/19941/one-foot-in-belgium-and-the-other-in-the-netherlands

14. http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/19941/one-foot-in-belgium-and-the-other-in-the-netherlands
& http://blog.art-of-darkness.de/2009/07/photoausstellung-von-robert-hausser-zum-mauerbau
& http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/obama-czar-u-s-southern-border-now-guatemala/
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2013/october/borders_from_space.htm

15. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/blocked-by-hungarys-border-fence-migrants-change-their-course/2015/09/16/2c3f9afc-5bc4-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html
& http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-europe-migrant-crisis-20150902-story.html

16. http://www.td-architects.eu/projects/show/walled-world/

17. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/09/economist-explains-1
Politically Powered Maps

18. A map of Crimea on openstreetmap.org
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/22/google-maps-russia-crimea-federation
Citizen Powered Maps

19. https://twitter.com/canadanato/status/504651534198927361 & https://twitter.com/natomission_ru/status/505052838184370176
Twitter Wars

20. http://qz.com/218675/here-are-the-32-countries-google-maps-wont-draw-borders-around/
Maps & Money

21. Border-lands

22. http://www.npr.org/2012/11/28/166079782/all-over-the-map-cartography-and-conflict

23. http://www.npr.org/2012/11/28/166079782/all-over-the-map-cartography-and-conflict
Seas of conflict

24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands

26. http://pcij.org/blog/2008/03/10/stirrings-over-spratlys
Borders in the sea

27. www.globalsecurity.org
Swallow Reef: Yesterday and Today
Borders in the sea

28. http://theconversation.com/the-truth-about-politics-and-cartography-mapping-claims-to-the-arctic-seabed-46043
IBRU map comparing the 2001 and 2015 Russian claim areas. Areas in
green are in the 2015 claim only. Areas in red are in the 2001 claim
only. Areas in pale yellow are in both claims.
Borders on the ice
New Arctic map, with August 2015 Russian claims shown in pale
yellow.

29. http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/611-our-one-continent-world-pangea-political
Political Pangea

30. Out of Africa

31. Thanks for your attention!
benjamin.hennig@ouce.ox.ac.uk | @geoviews | www.viewsoftheworld.net