Another great topic on TT!
Why is earth always depicted with the north on top? When something falls it`s going south so south is always in front (you dont drive backwards), thus south is forward.
And lets give the Aussies a break and let them on top for once.
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Shouldn't the South Pole be on top?
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It's not always on top. I have an Australian map with the south at the top.
It's like why does the Atlantic always have to be in the middle, why can't it be the Pacific.
It doesn't and it can.
And to think that this is my longest post for about a week.
It's like why does the Atlantic always have to be in the middle, why can't it be the Pacific.
It doesn't and it can.
And to think that this is my longest post for about a week.
Guess you've been spending too much time reading this web site
It came as a surprise to me after over 20 years of seeing "normal" world maps to come across an upside down one. The most surprising thing was that I found it surprising. It is completely artificial that we have North at the top of a map.
The convention came a few centuries ago when Northern hemisphere, European navigators started using the North star and the magnetic compass. Before that, the top of the map was to the East which is where the word orientation comes from.
The convention came a few centuries ago when Northern hemisphere, European navigators started using the North star and the magnetic compass. Before that, the top of the map was to the East which is where the word orientation comes from.
thats a great web site just think London UP NORTH and Manchester darn sarf
The old Egyptian word for "south" means "upstream".
*random knowledge I never thought I would be able to apply*
*random knowledge I never thought I would be able to apply*
reminds of a recent conversation with a Canuck (who shall remain nameless) who was talking about the "bottom states" (or was it "lower states"?) and meant the US states bordering Canada rather than the most southern states. Makes sense if you look towards the US from Canada and see the southern states as the top and the northern ones as the bottom.
Mississippi in the deep north just doesn’t have that ring to it
Lower Bavaria is in the north of Bavaria, but called lower because it is not up in the mountains.
yep, in Bavaria Ober- and Nieder- relate to the proximity to the Alps. In other places they relate to whether they are upstream or downstream, thus Niederkassel is downstream from Oberkassel (in Düsseldorf) and Niederrhein versus Oberrhein.
mathematician Joseph Adhemar suggested that the accumulation of thick ice at the poles periodically caused the earth to flip and the equator to move to where the poles were.
sounds logical(head hurts).
like this ??
Ui, that'd be interesting. Which two spots along the equator would then become the poles?
yep, in Bavaria Ober- and Nieder- relate to the proximity to the Alps.
More specifically, I think it refers to the height above sea level, i.e. Oberbayern (Upper Bavaria) is around 500 metres above sea level, whereas Niederbayern (Lower Bavaria) can be as low as 300 metres.In New Zealand I bought a map that had NZ in roughly the same location as where the UK is on a European map of the world. On a European map, Europe is in the middle with the Americas to the west and Asia to the right. If I recall correctly, American maps often put the Americas in the middle with Europe on the right and Asia on the left.
Incidentally, it's not only Australia that's hard done by normal maps. Because the earth is round but a map is flat, the countries around the equator get squashed and so look smaller than they actually are.
Maybe Ethiopia can be the north pole, so stop sending water and food and start sending fur coats and heaters.
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