Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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Now onto a somewhat pitiable globe seen at reddit:
Someone once decided to draw up a globe themselves and it started out not too bad:
Okay, Florida looks a bit odd and the Appalachian Great Lakes are new to me but for something hand drawn such details ain't too severe (and those big islands ver close to the North Pole might be due to when that glbe was made - more about that with the next image)
Regrettably other sides of that globe do have greater errors
As for a guessed age of that globe, with Italian East Africa being labeled (and not Somalia and eritrea separately) it seems that globe was created somewhere between 1937 and 41/42 (hence why I tolerate those errors in the arctic: it might not have been fully known yet what was under all that ice)
Someone once decided to draw up a globe themselves and it started out not too bad:
Okay, Florida looks a bit odd and the Appalachian Great Lakes are new to me but for something hand drawn such details ain't too severe (and those big islands ver close to the North Pole might be due to when that glbe was made - more about that with the next image)
Regrettably other sides of that globe do have greater errors
As for a guessed age of that globe, with Italian East Africa being labeled (and not Somalia and eritrea separately) it seems that globe was created somewhere between 1937 and 41/42 (hence why I tolerate those errors in the arctic: it might not have been fully known yet what was under all that ice)
I wonder if the artist even tried to do Antarctica and Australia or just said fuck it.
Given the spelling in the ad (Europen countrise) they didn't check anything.
If they did, they either:
- Didn't speak English ("countrise" and "Not work in UK" suggests bad machine translation)
- Didn't know any European geography
- Didn't care
- All of the above
Given that the text suggest that you could draw your location on the map it is meant to have some educational value. Let's just hope that your teddy won't travel to Australia. Or the Republic of Ireland.
(And hopefully he isn't disappointed if the palm trees of Northern Greenland are not as majestic as expected...)
(And hopefully he isn't disappointed if the palm trees of Northern Greenland are not as majestic as expected...)
Given the location at the bottom, may it should be "California is building solar in Illinois and Missouri is going to pay for it"?
Including New Zealand (and Tasmania) while leaving out Australia is stylish and unusual, but the Kirkines-Iskanderun Canal is something genuinely novel. I can't recall seeing a precedent for it.
Could be a lot worse though to be honest, like I know I couldn't draw that good so its hard to critique them about that lol
Weird that they made Iran an Axis state and decided the Soviet Union was fully occupied by the Axis
Also wtf about Turkey lol
Weird that they made Iran an Axis state and decided the Soviet Union was fully occupied by the Axis
Also wtf about Turkey lol
I mean it is not exactly wrong.
Other than Iran, that is definitely wrong.
Like all of Soviet Union is also wrong but I kinda get the intention of depicting the occupation, if inaccurate.
That said Turkey did declare war on the Axis and was therefore a founding member of the UN. Even if it was so late to be only symbolic in nature, it was a thing. So not inaccurate.