Image Credits and Licence Notes

Most images in this book are historical works in the public domain or archival images explicitly free for reuse; source institutions and rights status are identified in the individual captions. The following Creative Commons items require or benefit from specific licence information.

Figure 6.1. Map of Block XII, Waikouaiti Survey District - Being Subdivision of Native Reserve (1888). Author: New Zealand Railways Corporation, District Engineer's Office, Dunedin. Archives New Zealand reference DABB D101 409/55 - R6619117. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Block_XII,_Waikouaiti_Survey_District_-_Being_Subdivision_of_Native_Reserve_(1888).jpg. Licensed CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/. Reproduced without substantive modification; display size changed only.

Figure 6.2. Map of the North Island, with iwi boundaries and Māori population, 1881. Author/source: Archives New Zealand. Archives reference AAFV 997 Box 77/GAZ136. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_North_Island,_with_iwi_boundaries_and_Māori_population,_1881_(29010155165).jpg. Licensed CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/. Reproduced without substantive modification; display size changed only.

Figure 17.4. Anonymous political cartoon of the Berlin Conference, published in L'Illustration, 3 January 1885. Public domain by age. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Conference,_1884%E2%80%9385.jpg.

Supplementary web-edition images

Mercator's 1569 world map
Gerardus Mercator, 1569, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Original source.

A British trench map of the Western Front, 22 June 1916
War Office General Staff Geographical Section and Royal Engineers, 22 June 1916; Passchendaele Museum MZ 08476, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain, expired United Kingdom Crown copyright; Ordnance Survey credit retained. Original source.

GPS put precise time and position into a global satellite system
NASA artist conception of a GPS Block IIF satellite, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain, NASA. Original source.

Tissot indicatrices make Mercator's high-latitude enlargement visible
Eric Gaba (Sting), September 2008, via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Original source.

The International Date Line bends around political geography; the antimeridian does not
Another Matt, via Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication. Original source.

Africa seen from Apollo 17, rather than through a cylindrical world map
NASA, Apollo 17 crew, 7 December 1972, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain, NASA. Original source.

Gall-Peters preserves area, but the Tissot indicatrices show the accompanying shape distortion
Eric Gaba (Sting), November 2010, via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Original source.

Southern Greenland from space
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2017, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain, NASA. Original source.

A straight rhumb line and the shorter great-circle route behave differently on Mercator
Peter Mercator, 30 October 2012, via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. Original source.

The Equal Earth projection
Justinkunimune, 2023, via Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication. Original source.