This is really cool. What's the idea with the base colours of the islands? Blue for polar regions, green for tropical and teal for temperate?
Yep. I used the hypso tint layer from Natural Earth. Thank you! :)
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The size of New Guinea and Borneo never fail to surprise me. And Sumatra, for that matter.
Frankly, I never realized Java was that big.
I think it looks that way partly because Greenland is a lot smaller than it looks on most maps.
I used to live on New Guinea and was always told how it was the second largest island. Living there really made it clear, too. Not only is it huge, but the mountainous terrain slows travel so much that in my years there I only saw a tiny sliver.
This is why people should have actual globes in their house. I am never surprised by this shit.
Thank you Gerardus Mercator!
I never realized how big Cuba is. It appears so tiny in comparison to the American continent. I would have guessed that it is roughly the same size as the Mediterranean islands, when in fact it's almost the size of Great Britain.
Well, apparantly my geographic knowledge is still pretty Eurocentric.
fyi, Reddit is banned in Indonesia.
The thing about baffin island is that only 11k people live there. Its basically empty.
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This is only 10% of the islands I need for my Thousand Island dressing!
Just go to Canada. They have over 36,000 and aren't using most of them.
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Just print out the image 10 times
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