Rachael

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Native Maps SDKs Dev at Esri 👩🏻‍💻 | Flutter | Former Survey Geologist 🗺️ | GIS 🌍 | Software Development | Atlantic Rainforests 🌳 | Gaelic Placenames | Scottish Folklore 🧙‍♀️ | Old Maps

Hand drawn map of Torridon area from the late 1500s. Lochs and rivers can be made out, along with rough sketches of mountain horizons marking the steep topography of the land in the are. A transcriber describes this as “The profile of some mountains, probably between Maree and Torridon, but hopelessly confused.”
Edinburgh Castle ramparts resting directly above basaltic rock cliffs
Four images of satellite data using different bands, taken above an erupting volcano in Iceland.
Close up of the thick trunk of an old beech tree
Bark platelets/scales on a tree trunk