On the iconic 1754 Jens Michelsen Beck colonial map of St. Croix, the area that is today Maroon Sanctuary Territorial Park is labeled “U0ptande grunde” or “uncharted ground”. Some researchers wonder if this might constitute an episode of intentional “cartographic violence?”
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