Very interesting size comparison map I was just emailed.

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I think we have a mutual friend... :-)

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
I think we have a mutual friend... :-)

Seems so. I saw your email addy on the "tree". Cool map though eh? I always loved the map of Alaska overlayed on the lower 48. Gives you a feel for size.

It is a cool picture; I bet not many people could accurately describe what could 'fit' inside Africa. That damn Mercator Projection has ruined us all in terms of the size of the continents...

It will be interesting to send this to folks when they say that they heard there was unrest somewhere in Africa and are we not afraid to travel there.

Mark

I went on Google Earth and measured distances once.

It seems that NYC and Moscow are closer to Dakar than Dakar is to Capetown... and Dakar is pretty far south.

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
It will be interesting to send this to folks when they say that they heard there was unrest somewhere in Africa and are we not afraid to travel there.

Mark

Good point, Mark. Might have to use that one.

Lets all remember that Africa is in effect an island--after all it IS completely surrounded by water and the animals cant escape.




SSR

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Originally posted by Frostbit:
Very interesting size comparison map I was just emailed.

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Well done, sir!

Dang, I didn't realize Africa was such a large country......

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Originally posted by Cross L:
Lets all remember that Africa is in effect an island--after all it IS completely surrounded by water and the animals cant escape.




SSR

Are you saying that hunting in Africa is a CANNED hunt!

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Originally posted by RAC:

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Originally posted by Cross L:
Lets all remember that Africa is in effect an island--after all it IS completely surrounded by water and the animals cant escape.




SSR

Are you saying that hunting in Africa is a CANNED hunt!

Don't laugh! I have heard high fenced operators make that very argument.

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Originally posted by JudgeG:
I went on Google Earth and measured distances once.

It seems that NYC and Moscow are closer to Dakar than Dakar is to Capetown... and Dakar is pretty far south.

What I thought was amazing on the flight to Joburg from NYC, we flew across the Atlantic ocean and reached the edge of Africa, and were only halfway there.

Cool illustration.

Just out of interest ..

We can drive from Louis Trichardt in Limpopo Province South Africa to Livingstone Zambia in one FULL (LONG) DAY

If we leave L/T at say 4am and the Beitbridge border crossing into Zimbabwe is not too chaotic we can be in Livingstone Zambia around 8pm that same day/evening. It is a tiring day BUT one must remember that the traffic through Zimbabwe is comparatively light on route.

To make the trip more pleasent we often rather overnight in Bulawayo and make it a two day one night trip.

When I was over myself in Africa last year we made a VERY LONG and tiring journey from Limpopo RSA to Kalomo Zambia with a truck load of Nyala species which we were exporting from RSA to Zambia.

That was a trip to remember as we did not sleep for over 24 hours as the border crossings at Beitbridge and Victoria Falls were horrendously slow to get the animals through.

Africa is great but it (can challenge the soul) at times, especially when dealing with people in authority at the borders. Sometime unfortunately one has to grease the palms to get things moving and even then it can be tediously slow.


NYALA species in one of the transport vehicle's Limpopo South Africa prior to exporting to Zambia


NYALA safely in the quarrantine pens on our private "Bird Estate" Zambia game breeding property in Southern province near Kalomo



This NYALA did not survive the 1000+ km trip from RSA to Zambia. We only lost two animals out of 28 xported


Merry Christmas. Peter

Jim,

Pretty neat, I've seen those maps before and there is a lot of information that gives you the true spatial representation of the globe if you do a Google search for "true spatial land representation"...here is another map that I think may have been posted in the past relating to "light pollution". If you assume light pollution = result of modern human populations then you can clearly see why Africa is considered to be the "dark continent"

See: World Light Pollution

Click on the map picture to enlarge

Paul

Love that NASA light picture.

You can tell exactly where the border between North and South Korea is.

Paul

That is a great picture, and anyone who has walked around an African town at night can tell you why they look so dark on the map: because they are dark.

I think the map you posted really illustrates why we have such a skewed perspective on the realative sizes of land masses. The standard maps we all grew-up looking at greatly enlarge things as you get further from the equator.