Interesting Maps

Das Reich · 23-03-2021 02:44PM

Ellesmere Island is smaller than Great Britain.

mzungu · 23-03-2021 11:56PM

The United States and Canada at the same latitudes as Europe.

The J Stands for Jay · 24-03-2021 01:46PM

mzungu wrote: »

The United States and Canada at the same latitudes as Europe.

It shows how much we owe to the gulf stream

chooseusername · 24-03-2021 02:15PM

My sister in law, living in New York will not have it that Dingle is 1200km further
North than N.Y even after pointing it out on map.

cnocbui · 24-03-2021 02:30PM

chooseusername wrote: »

My sister in law, living in New York will not have it that Dingle is 1200km further
North than N.Y even after pointing it out on map.

Dingle should have polar bears as it's at the same latitude as the southern end of Hudson bay.

KevRossi · 24-03-2021 02:37PM

If you were to swivel Ireland around Malin Head, then Mizen Head would be level with Greenland.

Gregor Samsa · 24-03-2021 02:47PM

cnocbui wrote: »

Dingle should have polar bears as it's at the same latitude as the southern end of Hudson bay.

Sure polar bears, like Americans, are all Irish anyway! Kind of (not really).

But the truth is that the original arctic ancestors of the polar bear bred with Irish brown bears during the last ice age, and their unique genetic markers are still seen in all living polar bears today.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/jul/07/polar-bear-ancestors-ireland

The J Stands for Jay · 24-03-2021 02:56PM

chooseusername wrote: »

My sister in law, living in New York will not have it that Dingle is 1200km further
North than N.Y even after pointing it out on map.

Ask her again in the summer when it's cold and wet in Dingle and she's sweating every time she goes outside.

Brian? · 24-03-2021 03:35PM

mzungu wrote: »

The United States and Canada at the same latitudes as Europe.

I am just disappointed Georgia and Georgia don't align.

chooseusername · 24-03-2021 04:52PM

cnocbui wrote: »

Dingle should have polar bears as it's at the same latitude as the southern end of Hudson bay.

You'd never know, now fungi's gone awol they need another attraction.
They tried to entice an arctic walrus down but his satnav let him down.

mikhail · 24-03-2021 05:29PM

chooseusername wrote: »

You'd never know, now fungi's gone awol they need another attraction.
They tried to entice an arctic walrus down but his satnav let him down.

No, Ben, no!

BonnieSituation · 25-03-2021 01:24PM

Brian? wrote: »

I am just disappointed Georgia and Georgia don't align.

https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYwNTEzMjk.MTIyNzA5OTU*MjY3NzE5NTc(MTM0MTk2MTI~!CONTIGUOUS_US*OTI1Mjg2MA.MjE0NTA3NDE)Mw~!CA*NDM5MzQ0Mg.MjAyMjM3Mzg)NA

No real reason to do it other than you can.

retalivity · 25-03-2021 04:20PM

Map of the current traffic jam in the Suez canal.
From here - https://www.vesselfinder.com/

Brief_Lives · 25-03-2021 04:35PM

fascinating... it's addictive...

ablelocks · 25-03-2021 04:50PM

retalivity wrote: »

Map of the current traffic jam in the Suez canal.
From here - https://www.vesselfinder.com/

map of somali pirates en route to traffic jam in the Suez Canal

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paul_booth_fan · 26-03-2021 10:06AM

This is the GPS data from the Ever Given ship during its holding pattern before entering the canal.

Gregor Samsa · 26-03-2021 10:17AM

^^^

TTP (Time To Penis) even applies to container ships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xqyIMwbew

Gregor Samsa · 26-03-2021 04:56PM

A time lapse of vessels involved in the attempt to refloat the Ever Given on the Suez Canal yesterday, via the map on vesselfinder.com.

I like the boats that come up or down, take a look, shrug their shoulders and head off again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5suTcy0FD5Q

josip · 26-03-2021 05:05PM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

I like the boats that come up or down, take a look, shrug their shoulders and head off again.

Probably the ones carrying the politicians for the photo op.

Quantum Erasure · 26-03-2021 09:56PM

Brian? wrote: »

I am just disappointed Georgia and Georgia don't align.

https://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/10622/fact-attack-if-you-dug-straight-down-from-taiwan-formerly-formosa-you-would-come-out-in-formosa-province-argentina

the island of Taiwan (formerly known as Formosa, when it was named by the Portuguese) is on precisely the opposite side of the globe from Formosa Province, Argentina.That means, if you dug a hole straight down from Formosa, you'd end up in Formosa

The naming is a complete coincidence. Taiwan was dubbed "Ilha Formosa" ("Beautiful Island) by Portuguese sailors who first spotted the island in 1544. The Argentine Province had already been named some 16 years earlier, when Spanish explorers, adrift on the Paraguay River, entered the area and dubbed it "Formosa" - the archaic Spanish pronunciation of today's "hermosa," which also means beautiful.

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27-03-2021 09:25AM

Is it supposed to come out monochrome?

chooseusername · 27-03-2021 09:28AM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Is it supposed to come out monochrome?

Sorry,
Try This;

https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/makepanoramas_en.htm

cruizer101 · 27-03-2021 07:45PM

Shows the massive effect of North Atlantic Drift in Winter, think jet stream has some effect too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/me9dd1/a_band_of_equal_temperature_between_north_america/

AlejGuzman68 · 27-03-2021 08:04PM

ablelocks wrote: »

map of somali pirates en route to traffic jam in the Suez Canal

They must think Christmas came early lol.

retalivity · 27-03-2021 10:45PM

Map of whiskey distelleries in Ireland as of Oct 2020

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cnocbui · 28-03-2021 12:43AM

Which one of those is otherwise known as Jameson's?

28-03-2021 12:49AM

cnocbui wrote: »

Which one of those is otherwise known as Jameson's?

I think it’s made in Cork, though there’s a bit of a mix up with Cork/Down on the list anyway so I’m not sure if it’s there.

artanevilla · 28-03-2021 12:53AM

Irish Distillers is Jameson, distilled in Cork (no. 16 on map but no. 17 on list)

cnocbui · 28-03-2021 12:55AM

Thanks. My mother would be sad, she grew up in the Jameson's distillery when it was in Smithfield.

Padre_Pio · 28-03-2021 02:00AM

cnocbui wrote: »

Thanks. My mother would be sad, she grew up in the Jameson's distillery when it was in Smithfield.

Jamesons merged with some of its rivals in the mid 1970s and became the Irish Distillers Group.

They shut operations in Dublin and moved to a new distillery in Midleton, built beside an old distillery that's now the Jameson Experience.

Interestingly (and open to correction) Jameson whiskey was never made in the Jameson Experience distillery in Midleton.

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