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Its like ghe spirals at the front of aircraft engines
It's time to play World! Of! Fortune!
Antarctica and South America all like
The Drake Passage seems like a really difficult place to exist
It's not like the other passages
Fuck you greenland. Not so projectionally big now!
This looks like my favourite projection:
But with Antarctica in the centre! It tessalates really nicely which is fun
But you can see the deformation is madness, and only really works if you put sea in the middle of each side
Imagine having tiles like this in ur bathroom
I wish a bot would go and start selling these now
Where're the Ice Walls? /j
We have opted instead for an infinite plane with ice islands. You can see some islands are duplicates, with corresponding dupe NPCs, but we can promise each visit will be unique! Please enjoy our world :-)
Btw, what's the climatical reasons that Africa is desert-green-(savannah i guess), while the desert "banana" stretches on to north Asia?
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The deformation is mostly located in the sea and shouldn't matter.
Meaning it is pretty correct when it comes to landmass sizes.
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How does one represent cardinal direction on this? Every direction is north. 🤔
Hubwards, rimwards, turnwise, and widdershins.
That’s the neat part
Just put an arrow pointing outward somewhere.
Longitude
The Pacific Ocean is really big.
This always made me wonder, and I might be a stupid question, but I know Pangea was this one huge mass at one point. Was there nothing on the other side of the world except water? Why did all the land form on one side of the globe?
Correct. Nothing but water. Pangea wasn’t the only supercontinent in Eath’s history, just the latest.
Huh. Makes sense, I guess. I wonder if the continents just switch sides every however often and they’re just in the process of migrating together again but on the opposite side this time 🤔 I should go to bed lol
That is indeed pretty much what happens.
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Land masses drifting on a globe, crash together, bouncing off, drifting apart, rinse repeat on the other side.
Ooh, I love this. Great new perspective.
This map explains why there can be a 24-hour sun in Antarctica and why direct flights between the US and Europe pass over South America.
Checkmate, Globers!
the reverse of the U.N. logo
Apparently for UN polar caps already melted
1)Antarctica has solid land below the ice 2) there are currently zero nations from Antarctica in the United Nations
What a good illustration on how massive and empty the Pacific Ocean actually is.
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As it should be
based (on the south)
On a similar vein, this is why I like the Dymaxion map so much; it shows more clearly how the landmasses are connected and better illustrates how early people migrated and settled where they did.
Are Americas closer to Antarctica than Australia?
Why don't they go there from South America instead of New Zealand?
I've only ever heard of people going to Antarctica from the south of Chile (though I guess it depends where in Antarctica you're trying to get to)
They go to Antarctica from Chile all the time.
Antarctica is divided up into a whole bunch of wedge-shaped territories managed by different countries (plus an international treaty where everyone agreed to only use it for scientific purposes), and most research stations are near the coast. The Chilean, Argentinian, and British areas are in that area near South America. For the rest, starting in South America would mean you'd have to cross a big chunk or even all of Antarctica to get where you want to be
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Fun fact: New Zealand is actually part of Antarctica that broke off
You could say the same for Australia along with every other continent.
That's the wrong way round! Need one with the North Pole at the center, then Antarctica is properly shown as the ice wall it is!
Flat! I knew it!
On a serious note, New Zealand is actually included this time. Well done.
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