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[Spirictum]

Actually most of the land (in area) is in the southern hemisphere. The map projections that we use were all invented by Europeans and Americans and so they portray the Northern hemisphere as being bigger (the Equator runs across Northern Africa). However most of the land in the southern hemisphere is inaccessible (tiny islands or little to none infrastructure), tied up in war/civil war, or useless for agriculture *Cough desert in North Africa Cough, buried under jungle or unclaimed. Basically the Southern Hemisphere is a 'hard to get things done' place.

There is one problem here though. Peter's projection truly depicts South America and Africa in a better proportion to all other land, but still 2/3 of Africa is on the northern hemisphere, and 1/10 of South America too. So it isn't possible that the northern hemisphere doesn't have more land.

This is Peter's projection, and it seems that even with Antarctica the southern hemisphere loses.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Yeah, the Northern Hemisphere has twice as much land as the Southern Hemisphere.

 

[Niccolo Edwards]

The Peter's projection distorts the world horizontally just as the Mercator projection distorts it vertically. But you are right; I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote that.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

The Peters projection actually does provide a, proportionally, more accurate map. I was so disoriented by it too, but it is more accurate, kind of. The best is a computer generated globe really.

 

[TheNoob]

Only two days of school left for me

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Only two days of school left for me

Lucky, 16 for me.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

School has been out for almost half a month now

 

[trexeric]

I'm out on the 4th

 

[jackelgull]

Lucky dogs, I get out on the 26th.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Jesus Christ jack!!! Where do you live?? Hell??

 

[clanky4]

year round school, I shudder at the thought.

 

[Niccolo Edwards]

The Peters projection actually does provide a, proportionally, more accurate map. I was so disoriented by it too, but it is more accurate, kind of. The best is a computer generated globe really.

Globes are the best, but if you want a map that shows area accurately a land mass cartogram is really the only way to go.

Clanky: my sentiments exactly, I had to do year-round school for a few years, it was terrible.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

I hate the Peters Projection with a passion. I prefer the Robinson one.

Spoiler :

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Well aren't you original, I thought we were talking about PROJECTIONS.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Apparently I'm a Robinson. I do quite like the Peirce Quincuncial though.

 

[Spirictum]

A globe is also a projection, as the earth is a geoid not a globe

It's like saying that there are several types of islands, circular islands, triangular islands, thin islands, and greatbritannian islands, which has only one ocurrence found in Great Britain, as there is only one geoid: Planet Earth itself.

 

[trexeric]

That got me pretty spot on with Robinson. Although Dymaxion looks pretty awesome.

 

[TheNoob]

I feel so successful because I can do the r roll finally.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

I can't whistle, so I can never be the cool guy who whistles to his dog.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

#cantwhistlesquad