Brand New Size! This is a brand new version of this map, 24 by 36" folded, for all those people who have told us "I LOVE the map but just don't have enough room for the gigantic one you sell." Well, here it is, a mid-sized version perfect for the classroom, bedroom, or office.

Whats Up? South! offers a startling way to view the world, and a great way to shake people up and help them question their assumptions.

The main map is a Van der Grinten projection, which is a fair compromise between preservation of actual shapes, with less distortion of relative sizes than the Mercator projection. Details show major cities, railways, rivers, peaks (with elevations in meters), and ocean depths (also shown in meters), and each nation is clearly distinguished with color tints. Mountainous regions are indicated with shaded relief.
For the scale of the map, the size of the print is larger than most other world maps, a feature which makes the labels easier to read. Clocks across the top show the world's approximate time zones. Because it omits the Antarctic region, the map shows the Equator top of center.
Whats Up? South! offers a startling way to view the world, and a great way to shake people up and help them question their assumptions.
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More Information About What's Up South Maps:

"South Up" maps have a long history. You can read about South-Up maps in our book Seeing Through Maps. Included are images from Rome (200AD), Etzlaub's map of Europe (1501), Japan, Lenz's "USA as seen from Canada" and others.

Imported from Australia, with a unique downunder viewpoint and cheeky Aussie humor, this map was created by Stuart McArthur of Melbourne, Australia. He drew his first South-Up map when he was 12 years old (1970). His geography teacher told him to re-do his assignment with the "correct" way up if he wanted to pass. Three years later he was an exchange student in Japan. He was taunted by his exchange student-friends from the USA for coming from "the bottom of the world." It was then, at age 15, he resolved to one day publish a map with Australia at the top. Six years later, while at Melbourne University, he produced the world's first "modern" south up map and launched it on Australia day in 1979. It has sold over 350,000 copies to date.

Spread the word. Spread the map! South is superior. South dominates!

Long live AUSTRALIA -- RULER OF THE UNIVERSE!!