In comparison to earlier maps of Europe, this map is the first to show the network of superhighways criss-crossing the continent as European transportation surged. Published in June 1969, it accompanied an article entitled "Europe, A Restless Continent Remapped." The 1969 Europe map features: • Historical notes about relevant political changes in Europe and the Middle East • Thousands of place names including capitals, cities, and towns • Superhighways and railroads (both existing and under construction), roads, the Berlin corridor, tracks, principal airports, and canals • Mountains, rivers, lakes, intermittent lakes, dry lakes, swamps, glaciers, deserts, water holes, and areas below sea level • Ocean bathymetry • Oil fields and oil pipelines • Geographical equivalents and abbreviations
Coverage Area: Europe, western USSR, western Turkey, Israel, Lebanon
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