For Remembrance Day - Mapping Sunken War Ships

11/03/22 • 15 min

We honour Remembrance Day with Paul Heersink who has been mapping the 20,000 ships that sank during World War II. His dashboard illuminates patterns and stories across the naval theater and through the progress of the entire war. He shared his 8 years journey of mapping the sunken ships on Geographical Thinking.

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