In Search of the Castaways: a Google Map
Pfff I'm finally done with the (hopefully) most detailed Google Map of "In Search of the Castaways" ever. To say it was challenging is to say nothing. Even in the French original, the topography is often quite abused (e.g. 37th parallel runs between Point Rumena and Bay of Carnero, Snowy River is located at longitude 147°, mountainous areas are described as plains, etc.) English translations make it even fancier, to say the least. Lippincott abridges the text so fiercely that ten paragraphs sometimes collapse into one short sentence (e.g. description of Tristan d'Acunha). Routledge, on the other hand, while gently fixing some of the Verne's topography issues, creates a bunch of new ones like renaming Cape Tamar to Cape Lomax, Mount Taubara to Mount Tobira and converting 07 minutes of longitude to 67 (!).
Many thanks to David Rumsey's Historical Map Collection and its AI search engine which helped me align with the XIX century maps and get a clue of how Jules Verne himself might have viewed it. Hope you like it - and please let me know if you find something that needs a fix. Enjoy!