September 7, 2004
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The Upsidedown Map
It needn’t be a Eurocentric world
Australian Stuart McArthur drew his first upside-
down map in 1970. Why? Well, why should Europe be
at the top anyway? His teacher told him to re-do
his assignment if he wanted to pass. 40 odd years
later and he’s sold 350,000 copies of the buggers.
Comments (2)
There’s even a better one that reverses the Mercator land-mass bias… this one, which I have a “placemat-size” version of.
hehehe… they have this printed on a mug down under, but it shows australia and new zealand being at the ‘centre’ of the world.