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Reminds me of a story about the Black Buck raids by Vulcan bombers during the Falklands Conflict. Because they didn't have any maps of the southern hemisphere,
by willvarfar 7y ago
Reminds me of a story about the Black Buck raids by Vulcan bombers during the Falklands Conflict.
Because they didn't have any maps of the southern hemisphere, they just turned a map of the Atlantic upside down.
Source: https://youtu.be/rpRtEABdxNc?t=359 https://youtu.be/rpRtEABdxNc?t=359 (worth listening to the whole thing!)
- alistairSH 7y agoWhy would they turn the map upside down? North is still north, even if you're below the equator.
- gpm 7y agoThe world is spherical not square, which means that the farther away from the equator you are the smaller a circle parallel to the equator is. If you tried to use a map of the northern hemisphere for the southern hemisphere without turning it upside down, you would be stretching the point that is the north pole to cover the entire circle that is the equator, and condensing the entire circle that is the equator to the point that is the north pole.