FUN WITH MAPS – ISSUE 2025-203

By Steve Kovacs (Introduction by Chuck Gibson)

LOVELAND, OH (December 5, 2025) – Today’s edition of Fun with Maps is right in front of you, but something(s) much bigger have somehow disappeared here.  

Triangle

The Bermuda triangle – Bermuda to the southern tip of Florida to Puerto Rico.  Mysterious disappearances of ships and planes have been documented over the years.

The most famous vanishing is of 5 US Navy bombers on a training mission on December 5, 1946.  Just disappeared.

So what causes these disappearances?

Theories range from shifting weather patterns, magnetic anomalies, to methane gas releases, to just bad luck.

Have you been through the triangle?  I would think most have been on a cruise ship or a flight to the Caribbean through the triangle.

This map of Bermuda is by Hondius from 1639.  

Steve Kovacs and his wife Theresa reside in Loveland, Ohio where they raised their two children. He is a passionate collector of antique maps.

Visit his antique map boutique world-on-paper online. Watch for his daily feature Steve Kovacs: Fun with Maps here on Loveland Beacon.