map of world with antarctica at center
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Its like ghe spirals at the front of aircraft engines
Fuck you greenland. Not so projectionally big now!
Antarctica and South America all like
The Drake Passage seems like a really difficult place to exist
It's not like the other passages
How does one represent cardinal direction on this? Every direction is north. 🤔
Longitude
Hubwards, rimwards, turnwise, and widdershins.
That’s the neat part
Just put an arrow pointing outward somewhere.
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
The ancients knew the earth was a pyramid...
The Pacific Ocean is really big.
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
That's actually really cool. They're finding some crazy shit down there too. Not that I believe in anything crazy, but if there was a civilization there before us, it would be amazingly preserved.
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?
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
That is it, the small map screwed my perspective.
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.
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.
No matter how you flip it, Florida is still getting hit by a hurricane