I’ve posted more than usual this past week and so, to spare my readers too much stress and strain, I’m going to keep this week’s Map Monday nice and light. No history lessons, no cultural or ideological discussions, just a few intriguing perspectives on maps and the planet we live on. Enjoy.
World showing where today’s countries would/might be located on Pangea (the supercontinent that formed around 270 million years ago and slowly broke up into the continents we know today starting sometime around 70 million years ago).
Image credit: Openculture.com
World if someone long ago had decided to call the North Pole the South Pole and vice versa. Some people call this Australians’ view of the world.
Image credit: Mapshop.com
The time zones in Antarctica. I bet you never thought about this. And Canadians think they have it bad with 5 time zones (4 hours difference plus a half hour earlier in Newfoundland!)
Image credit: en.wikipedia.org
Map of the world, as viewed by whales. Thanks for sharing, Anne Rimmer.
Imagine credit: tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com
Africa in perspective. An effective way to get a better feel for the large size of this important continent.
Image credit: Times Atlas
Good lord, that Africa map says it all doesn’t it? Fascinating! – Marty
There’s so much we can learn about our world. Fortunately, between retirement and COVID lockdown, I have plenty of time to investigate! 😏
I loved the whales! I wonder how other animals view the world? I know that birds use the earth’s magnetic poles to navigate and I wonder if they use that to map their world with their internal GPS? Your posts are always so enlightening!
Thanks, Irma. I wondered that as soon as I saw this one “by” the whales. I haven’t found any yet, except for bird migratory routes. But I haven’t stopped looking!
I love how your maps give us a different view of our world. This was a truly enlightened idea!
Oh, thank you, Irma. I guess I’ll keep looking for interesting maps for you while keep writing (and explaining the background of) your very special poems for me!
It’s a deal, Jane! 😉
Love them, especially Africa and the whales. I guess it’s the standard map projections that make Africa look smaller than it is.
Yes, that surprised me, too. Perhaps it’s time to look at a variety of lesser known projections!
What a fascinating new perspective … I really had no idea Africa was so big … people also often underestimate the size of oz!
Thanks Jane 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it, Kate. I was also surprised at Africas’s true/relative size. I should look for some further maps that illuminate actual sizes as opposed to the relative sizes displayed by our most common map projections.
It’s not something I would ever think to do but I totally enjoyed your post, thanks!
Wide open natural spaces, and good hard working people. That’s my Africa.
You’ve got that one right, Kavitha! Good, hard-working and friendly people, amazing diversity of landscapes and history, and astounding variety of wildlife. ❤️
ah a true loyalist 🙂
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A fascinating post. Map reading is such a valuable talent, so many have no clue.
Thanks for commenting. You’re right; I hadn’t even stopped to think about people not being able to read a map, but of course these days many/most people rely on their GPS to do it for them. Where’s the fun in that?! 😏
As a relatively newcomer to your blog I do enjoy your maps, why have I never looked at a map of the world upside down?
I’m glad you’re enjoying them. I know, isn’t it weird to see ‘upside down’ like that?! It’s amazing how our minds are so “good” at accepting what we see at face value. Kind of like thinking of Greenland as being absolutely enormous because we usually see it on a Mercator projection. It’s a big island, but not THAT big!
Look at that. I could have hiked around to Canada in a week or two in the good old days 🙂
Lol. Maybe the weather would have been hospitable for more than a few months out of the year, too! 😏