diff --git a/frontend/src/components/FTMapPanel.tsx b/frontend/src/components/FTMapPanel.tsx
index 908f074..1d25dce 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/FTMapPanel.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/FTMapPanel.tsx
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ export function FTMapPanel({ decodes, myGrid }: { decodes: FTMapDecode[]; myGrid
     // and the space beyond the edge is the theme's own surface (style.css).
     const m = L.map(divRef.current, {
       zoomControl: true, attributionControl: true,
+      // No maxBounds: with the world smaller than the window the clamp
+      // dragged every zoom into a corner. noWrap tiles alone keep one world.
       worldCopyJump: false, preferCanvas: true,
       center: [25, 0], zoom: 2, minZoom: 2,
-      maxBounds: L.latLngBounds(L.latLng(-85.0511, -180), L.latLng(85.0511, 180)),
-      maxBoundsViscosity: 1,
     });
     mapRef.current = m;
     layerRef.current = L.layerGroup().addTo(m);
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/GridSquareMap.tsx b/frontend/src/components/GridSquareMap.tsx
index ab71c8c..ffd6e0e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/GridSquareMap.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/GridSquareMap.tsx
@@ -128,15 +128,11 @@ export function GridSquareMap({ myGrid, className }: { myGrid?: string; classNam
       // impossible on any window wider than it is tall: one step out was already
       // too far in.
       minZoom: 0,
-      maxBoundsViscosity: 1, // don't let a drag slide the world off to one side
+
     }).setView([20, 0], 2);
     // The whole world, once, whatever the window is shaped like — computed by
     // Leaflet from the container rather than guessed with a zoom number.
     m.fitWorld({ animate: false });
-    // Latitude only: the poles are the edge of the projection and there is
-    // nothing beyond them, while leaving longitude free keeps a drag from
-    // fighting the operator near the date line.
-    m.setMaxBounds(L.latLngBounds(L.latLng(-85, -Infinity), L.latLng(85, Infinity)));
     mapRef.current = m;
     layerRef.current = L.layerGroup().addTo(m);
     // Leaflet measures its container ONCE, when the map is created, and never