Some things I just learned from maps

How the Netherlands expanded by reclamation from the sea

Annual hours of sunshine in Europe and the USA

The wandering North magnetic pole

All of South America is east of Michigan

Average age at which young Europeans leave home

Melbourne is closer to Antarctica than Darwin

For more maps, click on the Amazing Maps Twitter thread.

[Added 1/9/2022]

Responding to Nikolai Vladivostok’s comment, here’s another map I found on the Twitter thread. I had unconsciously thought of Australia as a hot continent, but it stands to reason that, being virtually as big as the USA, it would have at least as much climate variation.

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2 Responses to “Some things I just learned from maps”

Nikolai Vladivostok Says:
January 8, 2022 at 7:24 pm | Reply
If you dip your toes in the waters off Victoria in winter, you’ll feel for yourself how close it is to Antarctica. Penguins live there, too.

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- philebersole Says:
  January 9, 2022 at 12:39 pm | Reply
  I always unconsciously thought of Australia as hot. If I had taken a moment to reflect, I would have realized it is virtually as large as the USA and would have at least as much diversity of climate.
  
  Here’s something else I picked up from the Twitter threat on maps.
  
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