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Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

37 objects on the Moon · 242 on another body · This reading plate draws no coastline — the graticule and the marks carry the record here; the interactive view draws the sourced Natural Earth outline. Select a mark to read its record.
TimeAll timeLast 100 yearsBefore 1926Full timeline →
3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

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South Georgia

A sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic, about 165 km long, that was the centre of Southern Hemisphere land-based whaling and is now one of the clearest recovery signals for the…

-54.4, -36.7 · approximate · whaling 1904-1971; survey series 1998-2020

On the world

  • A place in: Blue Whale Migration · 3 places

Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

Connections

  • adjacent to Southern Ocean — South Georgia is a sub-Antarctic South Atlantic island at the northern margin of the Southern Ocean system; whether it lies inside the Southern Ocean depends on which boundary definition is used.
  • is located in of Grytviken Whaling Station — Grytviken is a station site on the north coast of South Georgia.
  • is passes through of Antarctic Summer Feeding Migration — The 2020 survey and rising acoustic detections show South Georgia waters being used again as part of the Antarctic feeding range.
Inspect deeply — evidence & provenance →Read the story — Blue Whale Migration →

865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

The places on the Moon

37
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— A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.
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— A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.

All located objects · 37

1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

Every claim carries its evidence on the record it belongs to. Record-level revision history is not yet kept, and nothing here is generated or inferred — every figure above is counted from the records themselves. About Atlas →