tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post7398204975579370909..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Hairy Legs and True Romancezmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-79158814246919614392018-08-10T14:43:44.117+02:002018-08-10T14:43:44.117+02:00That is very reassuringThat is very reassuringzmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-1548386094579417612018-08-06T23:24:26.244+02:002018-08-06T23:24:26.244+02:00From time to time I appear to suffer the delusion ...From time to time I appear to suffer the delusion that there is a West Pole, located somewhere around San Jose, California. This comes out chiefly in the notion that the inland parts of China are east of its coast, but west of (say) Kazakhstan. Perhaps this derives from the use of "Orient" to describe Asia, when in fact the shortest way there is west.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-46533743663350329512018-08-06T22:19:34.783+02:002018-08-06T22:19:34.783+02:00i don’t think I’ve ever mentioned (it’s a secret t...i don’t think I’ve ever mentioned (it’s a secret that we’ve tried to keep within the confines of the family) that I suffer from a self-diagnosed (in fact self-invented) condition called geographical dyslexia? I am totally incapable of grasping anything about any map I have ever seen. In my mind Germany is west of England. In fact, the entire continent is, floating somewhere halfway to the fair land where you residezmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-37578368853657165802018-08-05T22:35:25.548+02:002018-08-05T22:35:25.548+02:00Australia is about four times the size of Greenlan...Australia is about four times the size of Greenland. However, the Mercator projection, in order to show compass courses as lines, exaggerates areas according their distance from the Equator. Therefore on a map using the Mercator projection, Greenland (between about 60 and about 82 degrees north latitude) looks larger than Australia (between about 12 and about 38 degrees south latitude.)Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-20831714771306477182018-08-05T20:29:22.338+02:002018-08-05T20:29:22.338+02:00Can that really be true about their respective siz...Can that really be true about their respective sizes? I'm going to have to go and pull the atlas out and have a lookzmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-12952802873171477012018-08-04T00:47:15.901+02:002018-08-04T00:47:15.901+02:00Perhaps Denmark and the Commonwealth could arrange...Perhaps Denmark and the Commonwealth could arrange to swap Greenland for Australia. As I recall, they look to be of comparable size on maps using the Mercator projection.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com