Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World By Trevor Paglen 324 pages; Dutton The Gist: From Area 51 to the once-secret prisons of Afghanistan, there are certain places ...

The Indian Ocean is teeming with sea monsters in Caspar Vopel’s 1558 map of the world. A giant swordfish-like creature looks to be on a collision course with a ship, while a walrus with frighteningly ...

Google Maps has gone down, leaving users looking at a blank space. While the website loaded almost as usual, the actual maps seem to have disappeared. It left only a blank world, and meant that the ...

A third of British adults thought Brazil was Australia and more than a quarter put France in India’s place on the globe in a shocking new geography poll. A fifth of people (19%) reckoned Mexico, in ...