dirtytalkinbinary:

gatic:

Australia compared to the USA.

I almost didn’t believe this when I saw it for the first time. Australia looks so tiny down there on the globe.

I like how Google distorts the ruled outline to be accurate on the disaster that is the Mercator projection.

To quote the CIA World Factbook: Australia is “slightly smaller than the US contiguous 48 states”. Creepin’ up behind you at 83.85% your land area, 7.31% your population, and with ALL of the poisonous animals. (But when I found out Brazil is actually slightly larger than us, it broke my little ten-year-old heart.)

novichkovnet:

My animation visualization based on illustration from Edward Quin ” An Historical Atlas”

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pepperjunkie:

-República de Colombia antes de la Guerra de los Mil Días- Fuente: Wikipedia

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leningradcosmonaut:

Map of Batavia (Jakarta) by Arnoldus Montanus, circa 1669

Ware affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot eylant Java anno 1669.

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archimaps:

Map of Frankfurt am Main in the 16th century

Galway, 1651 — Engraved and reduced copy by T. Nolan, 1820

The heavily fortified city of Galway was the last Irish stronghold to fall to the Parliamentarians, surrendering in 1652.

cartographymaps:

Johannes Blaeu, 1640, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

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archimaps:

Map of Calcutta in 1842

Star fort!