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Turnabout or Upside down maps

  • 1.  Turnabout or Upside down maps

    Posted 08-24-2017 20:57
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    Here are some examples where the top of the page is not what we know as the North pole.

    https://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmap/

    http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/turnabout_map_of_the_americas

    And here is a BBC article that goes into why we put North at the top of the page and shows examples from history where this wasn't the case.

    http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been-different

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