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Buckminster Fuller made a similar point with one of his dymaxion projections: https://telemachusunedited.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/lowpp.jpg https://telemachu

• ellyagg 10y ago
  I wouldn't be surprised if climate affected our adventurousness, though, which this projection doesn't capture. I find ice cold seas a lot more forbidding.
  • hansjorg 10y ago
    Climate has varied a bit over the years though. And Alaskan summers seem quite inviting.
• bbctol 10y ago
  Man, I understand the desire to make every map a rectangle, but filling that in with endless ocean is just so wrong
  • dpc59 9y ago
    Every single map is inaccurate in a way, I suggest you read How to lie with maps by Mark Monmonier.
    • jdmichal 9y ago
      Every single map that's not a globe, anyway... And even those are technically lies, since the Earth is not perfectly spherical.
      • mturmon 9y ago
        And more generally, "the map is not the territory".
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  • ebcode 9y ago
    Yeah, you really need to see where the cuts are for it to make sense. Here is a better version (without fictitious ocean): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fuller_projection_rotated.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fuller_projection_rotated...