Tag: Checked by hand

• Capitals that moved: every capital move since 1500, and how far each went

  

  184 moves of a capital since 1500, from St Petersburg to Brasília to Ciudad de la Paz. The longest was a flight: the Portuguese court, 7,716 km from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro in 1808.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Checked by hand, cities, Early modern, Government, history, Long view, Towns and cities, Wikidata, World

• Where the wolves were: the animals hiding in British and Irish place names

  

  Wolves, beavers, cranes and wild boar are long gone, but their names are not. I searched every named place and hill in Britain and Ireland for animals, threw out the false friends one by one, and mapped the 662 that are left.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Anglo-Saxons, Britain, Checked by hand, Early medieval, Ireland, Languages, OpenStreetMap, place names, UK, wildlife