So I decided to take the advice and go back and improve the mountains and rivers. I haven't gotten round to changing the font of the labels and editing some of the country label positions so I'm hiding those. I've attached my current WIP:

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I feel that it's better than the previous version. Will update when I do the labelling.

By the way Max, the I downloaded the Old Style Italic font you suggested and it's perfect.