Foxglove

Five places the maps stopped drawing

For years maps marked 'Sandy Island' in the Pacific. In 2012 a ship went looking: open sea, 1,500 m deep. It had never existed — an error copied for a century.

Kiruna, in Sweden, is literally moving, building by building, because the mine below makes it unstable. And Bir Tawil, between Egypt and Sudan, is land neither state wants to claim.