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Well, mine has Abyssinia on it, in a nice shade of pink, and a large chunks of inland Africa are just this big old white expanse with some pictures of funky loo
by madaxe_again 11y ago
Well, mine has Abyssinia on it, in a nice shade of pink, and a large chunks of inland Africa are just this big old white expanse with some pictures of funky looking lions. Antarctica is made of brass as there's nothing important down there.
It's 1860something, when the last bits of terra incognita were being mopped up. Like to be reminded that only recently there was still wonder and mystery in the world.
- creshal 11y agoWhen did white spots disappear from maps? Going by my parents' off-hand comments, maps showing Africa and South America still had big white blobs in the 1960s. Eventually they were filled in with satellite maps, but when was that? 1970s? 80s?
- stefansa 11y agoThe only one I have with a white spot is from the mid 1930s (one of the few Globes in which all of Africa, sans Liberia, is a colony). There's a white spot on the southern bit of the Arabian peninsula, just north of Yemen / N Yemen / Oman.