Map Man

MacKenzie's Chart of the Orkney Islands (1748) (2x3)

Uitzenddatum: Sep 19, 2005

Nicholas Crane harks back to the 1740s to follow in the footsteps of Murdoch Mackenzie, an Orkney schoolmaster who mapped the treacherous waters between the north coast of mainland Scotland and the islands. Crane uses Mackenzie's original methods for setting up baselines on land and frozen lochs.