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Feb / Mar '18 Lite Challenge: Carte exacte et fidele de l'isle d'Anoucoubao
I will try to represent an old style (16th-17th century) map of the island of Anoucoubao, maybe a tautology because, according to an old Caribean-French dictionary (http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/.../010017260.pdf anoucoůcou means "big monkey" and oůbao is an island. The two words were possibly contracted by explorers when they discovered the island or later through use or, to paraphrase Terry Pratchett, maybe that Anoucoubao simply means "Your Finger You Fool" in the natives language...
