But look at what sea-level rise has done to the Yucatan!
BioBob
Bah, a mere pecadillo !
Antarctica and many islands around the globe have been totally submerged by sea level rise, which is real reason why they are not present on the map !
On the other hand, some islands which used to be virtual flyspecks of land have grown enormous in extent and Kamchatka (which used to be one of my favorite map segments in the game Risk) has mysteriously shifted hundreds of miles. This is no doubt a good indication of the end of the world as we know it.
Alex, love it…I used this in my Tropical Ecology class today. BTW, I give the students a geography quiz every year and the results are…illuminating. Who knew the Himalayas were in Canada? or that Nigeria was in South America? Or that the island so big they call it a continent is actually China/India? All real answers I have gotten in the past few years.
JennyW
The Great Lakes region looks nothing like that. Sheesh!
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I guess they don’t sell coffee in Antarctica or New Zealand.
Keep looking. It’s worse than that!
Took me awhile. They’ve labeled the Equator as the Tropic of Capricorn.
Just more evidence of the scientific consensus concerning obvious southern hemisphere cooling…
Heh.
But look at what sea-level rise has done to the Yucatan!
Bah, a mere pecadillo !
Antarctica and many islands around the globe have been totally submerged by sea level rise, which is real reason why they are not present on the map !
On the other hand, some islands which used to be virtual flyspecks of land have grown enormous in extent and Kamchatka (which used to be one of my favorite map segments in the game Risk) has mysteriously shifted hundreds of miles. This is no doubt a good indication of the end of the world as we know it.
It has suddenly become very phallic!
Missed the southern hemisphere tropics, but at least they didn’t forget Tasmania.
They left out The Falkland. Where Hawaiian. Plus some islands in the Arctic ocean.
May I chalk this up to misunderstanding the Mercator projection, please?
Alex, love it…I used this in my Tropical Ecology class today. BTW, I give the students a geography quiz every year and the results are…illuminating. Who knew the Himalayas were in Canada? or that Nigeria was in South America? Or that the island so big they call it a continent is actually China/India? All real answers I have gotten in the past few years.
The Great Lakes region looks nothing like that. Sheesh!