Do world maps in Australia have south at the top or is it an urban legend?
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September 25th, 2009
They write on the web that australian maps are “upside down”.
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No, not normally.
You can buy the ones that flip the world in the unconventional way, but that’s primarily just for fun.
But atlases or professional map produced in Australia follows the accepted convention of having North at the top.
Damn it! That’s why I have trouble finding my way home.
Of course, why wouldn’t it be?
No we have North at the top just like everywhere else. With Tasmania at the far North and Darwin all the way down South near the rest of the world. Australia’s top town is Adelaide :)
Actually my dad says how they used to turn the maps around at school so you could read them from different perspectives, and also how they actually made maps that faced in different directions. But this had nothing to do with being in the Southern Hemisphere, and more to do with different ways of teaching geography.
@Jack79 – you mean all this time I thought I was living in the NT and it is actually the ST?
It’s called NT because it’s North of Papua New Guinea :P
You’re Papuan, right?
Freaky.
Upside-down map makes Russia look even more ridiculously massive.
@Jack79 – of course, how could I have forgotten!!!
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