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Lines mark links and orders the records assert. No path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
3005 BCE
Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated
Now · 2026species
Close ✕Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)
The only bird that breeds through the Antarctic winter, and the only vertebrate that does its reproduction on sea ice rather than land.
No recorded place · extant; breeds annually through the austral winter
Connections
- located in Antarctica — Colonies are distributed around the continental coast, and most were first identified from satellite imagery rather than from the ground.
- depends on Sea Ice — It is the only vertebrate that breeds on sea ice: the landfast ice under the colony must hold from laying in the winter dark until the chicks fledge in spring.
- preys on Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba) — Emperors take krill along with fish and squid; almost every Southern Ocean vertebrate is within one or two steps of the same crustacean.
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 Earth
242
- area
- — A region, drawn as one. The centre is not a location.
- point
- — A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.
- soft
- — A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.
- waypoint
- — A stop on a route. A single point does not describe it.
In focus · 106
- Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele)
- Aksum
- Alexandria
- Birmingham
- Boston
- Bukhara
- Canberra
- Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
- Carthage
- Chang'an
- Chicago
- Constantinople
- Córdoba
- Dunhuang
- Havana
- Istanbul
- Liverpool
- London
- Malacca (Melaka)
- Manchester
- Manila
- Mecca (Makkah)
- Merv
- New Orleans
- New York City
- Paris
- Potosí
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Samarkand
- Seville
- Shanghai
- Tenochtitlan
- Vladivostok
- Gulf Stream
- Boston Marathon
- Etosha National Park
- Kruger National Park
- Acapulco
- Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
- New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
- Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
- Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
- Antarctica
- Assam
- Darjeeling
- The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
- The Pontic–Caspian steppe
- South Georgia
- Taiwan
- Yunnan
- The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
- Abu Simbel temples (Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae)
- Borobudur
- Bottaccione Gorge, Gubbio
- The Broad Street pump, Soho
- Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park
- Cape of Good Hope
- Challenger Deep
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chengjiang fossil site, Yunnan
- Chicxulub impact crater, Yucatán
- Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
- Congo Square, New Orleans
- Cromford Mill
- Drake Passage
- Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, Pilbara
- Durham Cathedral
- Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
- Fortune Head GSSP, Newfoundland
- Gare de l'Est, Paris
- Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
- Grytviken Whaling Station
- Hadrian's Wall
- Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
- Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
- Hattusa (Boğazkale)
- The Heart's Content cable station
- Home Insurance Building, Chicago
- The Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale
- Isua supracrustal belt, southwest Greenland
- Kilwa Kisiwani
- Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
- Machu Picchu
- Marathon and the Tumulus of the Athenians
- Mariana Trench
- Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
- Meishan GSSP, Changxing, Zhejiang
- Mogao Caves
- Notre-Dame de Paris
- Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, Nunavik
- The Pantheon, Rome
- Pont du Gard
- Basilica of Saint-Denis
- Siberian Traps large igneous province
- Simplon Tunnel
- Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- Stonehenge
- Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
- Titanic wreck site
- Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae
- Turfan oasis
- The Valentia Island cable station
- White City Stadium
- Windsor Castle
Outside the current lens or window · 103
- The Luzon Strait
- The Red Sea cable corridor
- The Strait of Malacca
- Ahmedabad
- Berlin
- Brasília
- Curitiba
- Jakarta
- Lagos
- Manaus
- Marka (Merca), Somalia
- Marseille
- Medellín
- Moscow
- Nusantara
- Singapore
- Songdo
- Tokyo
- Xi'an
- Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor
- Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
- Berlin Marathon
- Chicago Marathon
- London Marathon
- New York City Marathon
- Tokyo Marathon
- AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
- Lagos Blue Line
- Metrocable Line K, Medellín
- Malagasy
- Australian Institute of Marine Science
- Arctic Council
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
- ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
- INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
- IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
- World Health Organization
- Amboseli National Park
- Chobe National Park
- Hwange National Park
- Maasai Mara National Reserve
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Okavango Delta
- Serengeti National Park
- El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- ITER
- Joint European Torus (JET)
- National Ignition Facility
- Anatolia
- Arctic Ocean
- Cuba
- Labrador Sea
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area — Western Plains
- Northern Virginia data-centre corridor
- Weddell Sea
- Zambezi River
- Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
- Angkor
- Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman (delisted 2007)
- Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO)
- Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Bayan Obo mining district
- The Bornholmer Strasse crossing
- Burj Khalifa
- Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Chichen Itza
- Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
- Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
- Ediacara Hills, Flinders Ranges
- Eko Atlantic
- Enewetak Atoll
- Francevillian Basin, Gabon
- Galápagos Islands
- Galapagos Rift
- Gemini North telescope, Maunakea
- Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
- Great Wall of China
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Kamioka Observatory, Mozumi mine
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- Landing Zone 1, Cape Canaveral
- LIGO Hanford Observatory
- LIGO Livingston Observatory
- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
- Bahia de Loreto National Park
- Makoko
- McMurdo Station
- Moss Landing battery storage complex
- Nevado Mismi
- Site of Palmyra
- Petra
- Philae temple complex (relocated to Agilkia Island)
- Taj Mahal
- Tempelhof Airport
- Timbuktu
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Paranal Observatory and the GRAVITY interferometer
- Vostok Station
- Waldschlösschen Bridge, Dresden
No dated records · 33
- Antioch on the Orontes
- Goa
- Jerusalem (Old City)
- Kashgar
- Lisbon
- Londinium
- Humboldt (Peru–Chile) Current
- Kuroshio
- Basque (Euskara)
- International Telecommunication Union
- The Fulda Gap
- Western Corridor and Grumeti Reserves
- Ogliastra and the Nuoro highlands, Sardinia
- Okinawa
- Southern Serengeti Short-Grass Plains
- Bhadla Solar Park
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Costa Rica Thermal Dome
- Denmark Strait Sill
- DSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
- Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
- John F. Kennedy Space Center
- Leptis Magna
- Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
- Meeting of the Waters (Encontro das Aguas)
- Ostia Antica
- Pikialasorsuaq (the North Water Polynya)
- Point Conception
- Porthcurno cable station
- Raja Ampat
- Salar de Atacama
- Stegra green steel plant, Boden
- Yaroslavsky Station, Moscow
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
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