![]() ![]() ![]() And just as contour globes, which allow you to feel the bumps of the mountains and the ridges of the ranges, have to wildly exaggerate the vertical scale-a truly scale model of Earth would feel smooth as a marble-Pacific maps need tricks too. It is by far the most dominating feature of our planet, big enough to hold all the land mass in the world with an extra North and South America thrown in for good measure. ![]() On a globe, from a certain angle, the Pacific covers everything in sight except for a slim curl of the Bering Strait and Canada and a sliver of Australia on the bottom left, and it extends still farther past either horizon. This mysterious, divine Pacific zones the world’s whole bulk about makes all coasts one bay to it seems the tide-beating heart of earth.” ![]() Courtesy Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New ZealandĪ globe gives a truer picture, especially if it doesn’t put the manufacturer’s name, compass rose, and key to symbols where the map is most “empty,” in what Melville calls, in Chapter 111 of Moby Dick, “the midmost waters of the world . ![]()
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