Maybe I'm not understanding. Isn't Australia an island, so wouldn't it show as some kind of "lake" like new Zealand is?
27 0 ReplyI was confused as well and I found this coloured version and this version with sea connections (green for Panama and Suez canal) that helped me to understand!
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Still kinda a weird how they have it laid out. Granted I'm no cartographer, I don't know the struggles of projecting a sphere on a plane.
12 0 ReplyThe Continental divides split the continents in half as there's no water that goes fully over them. That's awesome!
3 0 Replyoh yes now i get it
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Every continent is an island
4 1 ReplyEurope and Asia claim otherwise.
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Here’s a better projection. I don’- know what went wrong with OP’s…
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Is there a reason fish would orient the map that way?
23 0 ReplyWe asked but they declined to comment so we can only guess.
43 0 ReplyAfrica isn’t properly isolated, either. I guess that’s a side-effect of trying to make the land surround the sea.
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