Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like. 8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now ...

After a recent video, someone from the National Geographic Society reached out to give me an updated set of their atlases. Today I open them up to see if there's anything new worth seeing.

Once this photolettering process was refined, it was applied to our United States map supplement in the May 1933 National Geographic. Shortly thereafter, Society cartographer Charles E.