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Numerous shipwrecks in Orkney waters in the 1700s made better maps urgent. Kirkwall Grammar School master Murdoch Mackenzie applied his Edinburgh University mathematical training to a highly detailed survey of land and sea, to produce a radically different level of map, which remained the standard until the modern admiralty chart. Neil Kermode tells the story.
In association with Orkney Heritage Society

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