Big Map Blog

Interesting maps, historical maps, but above all, BIG maps.
Travel Without Baggage

Can you seriously travel with no luggage at all? Yes you can.
I’ve done it. Traveling with no bags is gloriously liberating. You move fast, close to the ground, spontenously. You feel unleashed, undefined by your possessions. It is just you and the world. I am convinced that with less stuff to manage you think different. You learn lots, fast.
The plastic found in a single turtle’s stomach

This collection of hundreds of coloured, jagged shards could be a work of abstract art. But the objects in the photograph to the right are the contents of the stomach of a sea turtle that lost its battle with plastic pollution.
Nuclear power plant accidents

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Most Tourists Take Pictures from the Same Spot

Hundreds of tourist photos weaved into one