Mid-Afternoon Map: Grasping for Greenland

Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** Several people responded to our last map by asking where Greenland went. Apparently in the course of flipping around North America, I lost track of it, and while Iceland ended up over by Kamchatka, Greenland disappeared. This isn’t the first time Greenland’s been overlooked, and it probably won’t be the