mapping expeditions
Cartographic field trips
Mapping expeditions are organized journeys undertaken to survey, chart, and document unfamiliar or poorly understood territory.
Historically, these ventures combined exploration with systematic geographic recording, producing maps that served colonial, military, scientific, or commercial purposes.
Lewis and Clark's mapping expedition charted the American West.
The term applies both to land-based surveys and maritime charting voyages.
Modern mapping expeditions may focus on remote regions, ocean floors, or even extraterrestrial surfaces.
- GPS devicesSatellite-based location tools
- data collectionSystematic accumulation of facts
- ancient mapsOld geographical drawings
- colonial explorationNations claiming overseas territories
- terrainLand's physical features
theodolites · drones · compasses · compass rose · dead reckoning · topography · territorial claims · navigation · landmarks · terra incognita · satellite imagery · altimeters · atlas · exploration journals · portolan charts · wilderness · geographic coordinates · map projections
- Canadian ExplorationNorthwest Passage, Hudson Bay, Jacques Cartier, John Cabot, Henry Hudson
- BC Mapscolonial maps, railway maps, land surveys, navigation charts, Vancouver Island
- Colonial AustraliaBotany Bay, penal colonies, convicts, penal colony, colonial settlement
mapping expeditionswandering
Traveling with no fixed course
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