Sunday, February 6, 2011

Nautical miles


My friend N and I have been visiting London. He's heading back to Finland, I'm on my way to Stockholm but, because of the ferry routes, have to change ferries in Mariehamn. Bit of a daft detour, as Stockholm is closer to London than to the Åland Islands.

/IÖ

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In the third comment to the post linked below a dream-map reports that there are three Åbo. Maybe Stockholm is one of the Åbos?

http://cormorantcouncil.blogspot.com/2007/11/drmkartografi-och-gvledrmmar.html

/NN

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the reminder; I thing the Tideå and Tiltje place names are interesting observations, being both symbolic and an example of language as a geographical marker.

Perhaps Stockholm is indeed one of the Åbos, unknowingly to the mapmaker. But there is also a severe North Sea collapse involved.

/IÖ