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National Geographic announced Tuesday that it is officially recognizing the body of water surrounding the Antarctic as the Earth's fifth ocean: the Southern Ocean. The change marks the first time in ...

I’ve always enjoyed poring over a good map. Whether it’s thumbing through a road atlas, spinning around a globe, or sticking pushpins into a wall map to designate where I’ve been and where I want to ...

Sixty-five years after the first climbers summited Mount Everest, we look back on our most stunning maps of the mountain. This photograph and graphic overlay maps the last two and a half days of ...

The National Geographic Society says it is joining scientists from around the world in adding a fifth named ocean to the world map even though the idea is still not accepted by all countries. For ...

Related video: Glaciers all over the world are melting at a more rapid paceThe National Geographic knows a thing or two about maps: They've been making them since 1915. Over those 106 years, the famed ...

The maps in the slideshow above represent an underappreciated form of American visual art: the pictorial map. They’re maps designed to draw you in and—as often as not—try to sell you something, ...

An interactive map made using GIS showing the rise in fuel prices by percentage displayed where they occur by major highway networks. Maps like this enable us to visualize socioeconomic challenges in ...

National Geographic did not invent the Southern Ocean, but it made it official this week, cartographically speaking, adding the body of water around Antarctica to its maps along with the Pacific, ...