c/mapporn · by ooli@lemmy.world · 2yThe world according to fish 237 points · 14 comments · view on lemmy.world
14 Comments
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 2y
Maybe I'm not understanding. Isn't Australia an island, so wouldn't it show as some kind of "lake" like new Zealand is?
Dampyr@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y
I was confused as well and I found this coloured version and this version with sea connections (green for Panama and Suez canal) that helped me to understand!
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 2y
Thank you.
Still kinda a weird how they have it laid out. Granted I'm no cartographer, I don't know the struggles of projecting a sphere on a plane.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
The Continental divides split the continents in half as there's no water that goes fully over them. That's awesome!
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y
oh yes now i get it
Johandea@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 2y
Every continent is an island
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Europe and Asia claim otherwise.
grue@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
That's because they're only fake continents who don't realize they're just parts of Afro-eurasia.
Hell, Europe is just a peninsula with delusions of grandeur.
bleistift2@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
Here’s a better projection. I don’- know what went wrong with OP’s…
Maddox@feddit.ch · 23 pts · 2y
Is there a reason fish would orient the map that way?
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 2y
We asked but they declined to comment so we can only guess.
bleistift2@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
Africa isn’t properly isolated, either. I guess that’s a side-effect of trying to make the land surround the sea.
onion@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
I don't think you could see the Suez Canal at that scale
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2y