"We have continuity over the equator. African and South America are draped over the edge, like a sheet over a clothesline, but they’re continuous." Odd way to

"We have continuity over the equator. African and South America are draped over the edge, like a sheet over a clothesline, but they’re continuous." Odd way to characterize a map that cuts the equatorial region literally in half. It is true you can rotate the two circles so that whichever longitude you want is touching though, that's nice. They picked something around 5 degrees east, or just about the middle longitude of the landmass of Africa. The most unusual feature of this projection is how it heavily emphasizes the two poles, literally centering them. Most maps you don't really get any sense of the Antarctic continent at all.