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This 1969 map of Brasilia show’s the bird-like shape of the city as designed by Lucia Costa. He was hired by President Juscelino Kubitschek to design the city in what had previously been a waste land with scarce water, animals, plants or people.

Contour map of the island, Fogo. The island, located in the Cape Verde archipelago, is mostly a large volcano, Pico do Fogo. It is laregly dormant, but has had intermittent eruptions, the last of which occurring in 1995.

This map illustrates the history of volcanic eruptions on the island of Fogo. "On the western slope of the island there are differentiated types passing into basanites (nepheline basalts), tephrites, and phonolites, on the salic side, and into some…

A contour map of the islands Fogo and Brava, a detail from a larger map showing the entire Cape Verde archipelago. Note the contour of Fogo, which contains Pico do Fogo, the highest point in Cape Verde, and active volcano.

Detail from a map of Cape Verde showing São Nicolau. The island is in the northwest section of the Cape Verde archipelago and is in the windward group known as Barlavento. This map detail is from a larger map published in 1970.

Detail from a topographical map of Cape Verde (see CV-81-001). This detail shows the islands São Antão, São Luzia and São Vicente.

An enlarged view of a map of Cape Verde showing the islands Sal and Boavista.

A topographical map of Cape Verde from 1971.