Map of the Black Sea.  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.  An entire atlas of seemingly blanks maps: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

A map of the Red Sea.  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.  An entire atlas of seemingly blanks maps: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

Map of the Pacific Ocean.  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.  An entire atlas of seemingly blanks maps: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

Map of the Atlantic Ocean.  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.  An entire atlas of seemingly blanks maps: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

Surpised that this does not represent a street sweeper sweeping snow in Alaska.  From the University of Saskatchewans 1932 yearbook.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.

From The Map of Chaos by Felix J. Palma.  For a weird collection of unmappable places, see The Carte Blanche Atlas.

"Going to an empty square on a strange map of a wild and distant land."  From Tom Penny by Tony German, 1977.

(Hat tip: the winsome Jonathan Caws-Elwitt)  A map of the Arctic Ocean or the White Sea.  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.  An entire atlas of seemingly blanks maps: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

"Let's begin with nothing."  From Improvement Era, 1962.

"In the map your heart is taking the curves.  Sometimes you miss one in the borderlands.  Sometimes you get there with the help of the saints."  From Mothers News, 2013.

Here's a blank map from Jim White's No Such Place album.

"Bear location still bare."  From Butler Community College's 1986 yearbook.  See this most unusual collection of the blankest maps ever attempted: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

"If you get into unmapped territory, improvise."  —Tim Powers, Declare

See this remarkable book of truly unmappable regions: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

If our eyes aren't deceiving us, this is a map of The Unknown Sea.  From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman, 1898.

Here's a blank map of the North Pole, from Andy's Adventures on Noah's Ark by Douglas Zabriskie Doty, 1902.

Here's a blank map of the moon, from The Lunar World by Josiah Crampton, 1853.

The artist of this blank map, David Waywell (a.k.a. Stan Madeley), admits that "some people might say that it's a bit obscene."  Almost by way of apology, he notes "how much skill was involved in drawing licorice with white ink." 

A "retroactive lifetime goal"* is having our own Carte Blanche Atlas [of Blank Maps] referenced by a Lewis Carroll expert as "amazing" and "a reliable source of information ... without errors."  Scholar Doug Howick even quotes our nine crucial differences between a blank map and a blank page.  (Those nine differences are listed here as well.)  It's all in the Knight Letter of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, and a pdf of the issue is available via Archive.org.  (Granted, this is technically news from 2011, but we blog years in advance as part of our ongoing time-bending experiments.)

*Phrase courtesy of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt