Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
Beaufort Sea
Bering Sea
Barbados
(Fr.) Guadeloupe
(U.S.) Puerto Rico
Belize
B r a z i l
C a n a d a
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominica (Fr.) Martinique
Dom. Rep.
Ecuador
El Salvador
French Guiana
Greenland
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Nicaragua Panama
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Suriname Trinidad and Tobago
U n i t e d S t a t e s
Uruguay
Venezuela
Antigua and Barbuda St. Kitts & Nevis
New Zealand
Solomon Islands
New Caledonia
(Fr.)
Fiji
Alaska (U.S.)
Hawaii (U.S.)
Grenada
Vanuatu
Kiribati
A r g
e n
t i n
a C
h i l
e
Paraguay
Pe r u
B olivia
M exico
Bahamas
Cuba G
uyana
Samoa
THE HOBO-DYER MAP Can a map challenge your assumptions about the world? The Hobo–Dyer map reorients the world, placing south at the top and, like the Peters map that follows, uses an equal-area presentation, presenting accurate proportions of countries, continents, and oceans in relation to one another, rather than emphasizing shape or compass bearings. What do you see differently from this new perspective?
WE
S
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Falkland Islands (U.K.)
Equator
IN DIAN OCEAN
SOUTH ATLANTIC
OCEAN
North Sea
Laptev Sea Kara Sea Barents Sea
Sea of Okhotsk
Sea of Japan
South China
Sea
East China
Sea
Bay of Bengal Arabian Sea
Persian Gulf
Black SeaCaspianSea
R ed Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Lake Baikal
Aral Sea
Algeria
Angola
Botswana
Tanzania
M ad
ag as
ca r
M alawi
Equatorial Guinea
Sao Tome and Principe
Be ni
n To
go
Burkina Faso
G ha
na
Chad Djibouti
Egypt
Ethiopia
Gambia
Gabon
Guinea- Bissau
Côte d'Ivoire
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Morocco
Namibia
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Swaziland
Kenya
Mauritania
Uganda
Western Sahara
Seychelles