They let New Zealand and Hawaii design the view of earth for the official flag.
(But also I look at this a lot and think about my ambition to sail across it. Radar, satellite phone, all the tech or not... that is a lot of big angry water.)
(But also... can you really claim to know the earth if you don't know anything about all of this?)
@futurebird Now that the maps we interact with every day are electronic, this really is pretty close to the main view of the world we get from New Zealand. It’s easy to forget how large other landmasses are.
I grew up with British Mercator maps, and I wonder how much cultural change is occurring as our collective memory of those fades.
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