Interesting Maps

JupiterKid

Index of skin tones by location on a global scale.

Victor

Are there really that many green people?

While I may be being glib, the map doesn't help itself.

Tell me how

https://twitter.com/MarshsLibrary/status/1284494788297924609?s=09

cameramonkey

JupiterKid wrote: »

Index of skin tones by location on a global scale.

no way that irish people have the same skin tone as French people.

Gregor Samsa

Victor wrote: »

Are there really that many green people?

While I may be being glib, the map doesn't help itself.

Also, all the blue people in the middle of Greenland. From the cold? Or "fir gorm"?

KevRossi

Must be to do with indigenous skin colour, because there's no way the average skin tone in Australia is at that end of the scale.

cdeb

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Also, all the blue people in the middle of Greenland. From the cold? Or "fir gorm"?

I think that's just uninhabited.

You don't live in the centre of Greenland unless you have a death wish. (Though you could probably say the same for a good number of the Arctic Canadian islands)

Professor Moriarty

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Also, all the blue people in the middle of Greenland. From the cold? Or "fir gorm"?

Smurfs.

New Home

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Smurfs.

Avatars?

Fogmatic

Further to post #1204, Ireland looks even more laid-back here (though perhaps in better shape).

Mapping must have been difficult if the sun was shrouded in rain and mists. (And I wonder if the word Hibernia was suggesting it was to the north of Wales etc?)

(Sorry, can't seem to embed image from phone today - probably just me?)

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josip

Are those islands on the East Coast the Arklow Bank ?

castletownman

josip wrote: »

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Are those islands on the East Coast the Arklow Bank ?

Yes they are.

It's suggested too that Arklow is referred to as Menapia on Ptomley's map of Ireland.

New Home

I had always associated the word Hibernia with hibernation, meaning Land of Winter.

Barna77

Fogmatic wrote: »

Mapping must have been difficult if the sun was shrouded in rain and mists. (And I wonder if the word Hibernia was suggesting it was to the north of Wales etc?)

The land of -always- winter

Gregor Samsa

The claim I've heard is that Hibernia actually came from the old Celtic word for the island *Iveriu (where Ériu and subsequently Éire come from) that was then altered in Latin to Hibernia, as it sounded like the latin hibernus, meaning winter. Other lesser used classical names for Ireland like Ierne, Iouernia and Iberio/Hiberio come from the same stem.

So it wasn't that they directly called it Hibernia because of the weather, but more because the Celtic name sounded "wintery" to them.

New Home

I'm sure the weather didn't help.

ohnonotgmail

Is irish weather so different to the weather in parts of england that the romans would have noted it?

Ipso

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

The claim I've heard is that Hibernia actually came from the old Celtic word for the island *Iveriu (where Ériu and subsequently Éire come from) that was then altered in Latin to Hibernia, as it sounded like the latin hibernus, meaning winter. Other lesser used classical names for Ireland like Ierne, Iouernia and Iberio/Hiberio come from the same stem.

So it wasn't that they directly called it Hibernia because of the weather, but more because the Celtic name sounded "wintery" to them.

Yeah. Think the really old word is something like piwerjon meaning fertile or land of plenty. There was a group in Kerry that were called the Iverni that retained this old name and then the Romans tried to force it to Hinernia which meant Winterland.

josip

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Is irish weather so different to the weather in parts of england that the romans would have noted it?

I think it is.

I spend some time each year in Berkshire and Kent and late spring/summer is usually just warmer than over here.
Our weather here is more variable; when the sun breaks through the clouds it can be fairly hot, but 2 minutes later a cloud comes across, a south easterly wind pops up and it feels cold. Rinse and repeat 7 times an hour.

forgottenhills

josip wrote: »

I think it is.

I spend some time each year in Berkshire and Kent and late spring/summer is usually just warmer than over here.
Our weather here is more variable; when the sun breaks through the clouds it can be fairly hot, but 2 minutes later a cloud comes across, a south easterly wind pops up and it feels cold. Rinse and repeat 7 times an hour.

Yes but the Romans were in Northern England too and that is not much different to here. Scotland's is worse, maybe that is why the built the wall.

Brian?

forgottenhills wrote: »

Yes but the Romans were in Northern England too and that is not much different to here. Scotland's is worse, maybe that is why the built the wall.

I don’t think the Romans really knew what the weather was like in Ireland. They just knew it was out there and mysterious.

Ipso

forgottenhills wrote: »

Yes but the Romans were in Northern England too and that is not much different to here. Scotland's is worse, maybe that is why the built the wall.

Or because of the Wildlings.

Capt'n Midnight

Victor wrote: »

Are there really that many green people?

While I may be being glib, the map doesn't help itself.

They're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.

Wibbs

Ipso wrote: »

Yeah. Think the really old word is something like piwerjon meaning fertile or land of plenty.

A Greek lad by the name of Strabo reckoned that Ireland's land was so fertile that cattle risked exploding from eating to much of the grass.

Brian? wrote:

I don’t think the Romans really knew what the weather was like in Ireland. They just knew it was out there and mysterious.

They'd have had a fair idea of general things about the place as trade was going back and forth between here and Britain and the continent, so would have heard things about Ireland.

Ipso

Strabo obviously didn’t make it to West Donegal.

Capt'n Midnight

Remember the solar probe we launched a while back ?


Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun

Maps of the sun don't stay current that long

Capt'n Midnight

KevRossi wrote: »

You could run the lighting in a niteclub just by showing Italy. Over 60 changes of government.

Colours are national flags, they missed a trick.

Italy's up to 70 now.

Markcheese

Could really put Spain on the list , it would have been Franco ,Franco Franco till 70 whatever ..

New Home

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Is irish weather so different to the weather in parts of england that the romans would have noted it?

I'd say different enough - sure look at the amount of rain that falls in the West in comparison to Dublin, or even Wexford.

sligojoek

I've often predicted the end of Evelyn Cusack or Siobhán Ryan's prediction of heavy rain as "Especially in the North and West"