Quenten
Quenten
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- Quenten
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- November 29, 1950
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- Australia
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- Quenten Walker
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- Mapmaker
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[WIP] - An audience with the King
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WIP: ESTONISCH CONTINENT BIRDSEYE
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Map under an hour challenge
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Working on Atlas maps....
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What got you into cartography?
When I was 12, I was obsessed with Lord of the Rings, and wanted to create my own world. Then I went on a school expedition to Norfolk Island, and 'fell in love' with the map of Phillip Island, 5 km south of Norfolk island, and denuded of all vegetation by rabbits imported there by the prison officers for their 'hunting entertainment'. They have actually got rid of the rabbits and the island is being revegetated, but when I visited it in 1964, it was like a moonscape!
Anyway, this is the Google map of Phillip Island, and the first map I ever did (by hand) of the fantasy land of Al'Ayn - again for a book I will never write. And also, the third map is the newer version made when I got CC2, then the fourth when I got CC3+.