Josie Ford
Trust the map
Bringing Ethel, our capuchin monkey friend, along for the ride turned out to be a mistake. For one thing, she insisted on navigating. “Are you sure this map is up to date?”
“Ptolemy was the finest of Roman cartographers,” we snapped, “and if he placed the Welsh coastline 13 kilometres further into the sea than it’s currently rumoured to be, that’s good enough for us.”
Feedback stabbed at the latest issue of Atlantic Geoscience, which reports the existence of two lost islands in Cardigan Bay, identified by Simon Haslett at Swansea University and David Willis at…
