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Ooh, I love this. Great new perspective.

Fuck you greenland. Not so projectionally big now!

As it should be

Its like ghe spirals at the front of aircraft engines

Fun fact: New Zealand is actually part of Antarctica that broke off

the reverse of the U.N. logo

based (on the south)

Are Americas closer to Antarctica than Australia?

Why don't they go there from South America instead of New Zealand?

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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!

Antarctica and South America all like

Flat! I knew it!

On a serious note, New Zealand is actually included this time. Well done.

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.

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!

The Pacific Ocean is really big.

The Drake Passage seems like a really difficult place to exist

This looks like my favourite projection:

• The Peirce quincuncial 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

They go to Antarctica from Chile all the time.

You could say the same for Australia along with every other continent.

No matter how you flip it, Florida is still getting hit by a hurricane

Imagine having tiles like this in ur bathroom

How does one represent cardinal direction on this? Every direction is north. 🤔

I wish a bot would go and start selling these now

The ancients knew the earth was a pyramid...

That’s the neat part

Just put an arrow pointing outward somewhere.

It's time to play
World!
Of!
Fortune!

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.

Hubwards, rimwards, turnwise, and widdershins.

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.

Longitude

It's not like the other passages

(Your image wasn't showing on my client, probably because hotlinked)

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

Ruins of Ushas under there somewhere.

Thanks. It shows up for me, and I usually test this in a private window. I guess there are other aspects to consider, maybe IP/location.

Where're the Ice Walls? /j

The deformation is mostly located in the sea and shouldn't matter.

Meaning it is pretty correct when it comes to landmass sizes.

That is indeed pretty much what happens.

Apparently for UN polar caps already melted

The entire mantle is constantly moving and essentially “floating” on our dense Liquid Metal core

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 :-)

Shouldn’t matter to us! But in my experience whales find these maps completely inscrutable. Afaik they actually prefer a Mercator centred on the Pacific, but any whales feel free to chime in

I see this more as like the opening bit in a Star wars movie