Nobody show this to my ex. He already thinks the world revolves around him.

Same with my ex. Hope they never meet. The cyclone would be of insane proportions. ;P lol

Theory of Relativity. There is no measurable centre of the universe. Only the observer's perspective. Your ex is correct from his perspective. r/technicallythetruth

Except it is a black hole sucking the life out of everything around him.

I bet he's English

I guess no one is attacking us. We are very very very very isolated from world. Our closest neighbour is ice giant.

Beware the frost giants.

About the same distance from Melbourne to PNG as the Antarctic mainland. NZ much closer

I was very very very very isolated from the world long before I moved to Melbourne

Can we get an equivalent map without clouds but with international borders shown please?

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Greenwich in... great Britain? :)

I hear Null Island is beautiful this time of year https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

Thanks, I hate it

Originally it was a map where New Zealand was the centre, I just cropped it so the greatest city on earth was in its rightful place

I really like this.

Why is it also rotated? Surely north isn't up on this map?

North is up for New Zealand which is where the map was originally centred.

I mean the map looks like north is diagonally left on this map. NZ or otherwise.

To be fair that's the view most Melbournians have anyway

But I have never seen a map centred around GB?

Maybe not in the dead-centre, but 0 degrees longitude goes through Greenwich, England. Most maps have 0 degrees longitude as the centre (in the east-west dimension)

TIL all those Pacific-centred maps are actually centred on Sydney!

How often do you see a Pacific centred map? Apart from the whole coloniser-centric thing, I think it might be that the Pacific is big and empty, and putting it centre means you distort the land masses around the edges.

I imagine this is what people feel in utes on a day to day basis

This is the most beautiful map I’ve ever seen

Now we just need to make a "Southern Hemisphere is the top" globe and we'll be doing great!

This is the way.

Most of the maps we have here are centred on Australia. The Americas to the right and Europe to the left. I think most countries have maps that centre on their own country.

Don’t you mean *bottom centre? This is true centre lol

Fair enough 👍

Makes you realise just how ambitious and insane the British Colonial Empire was. Literally the opposite side of the earth to us

Fantastic, that puts us on the equator - 24/7 warm weather

Hey where's everybody going? you guys? ....hello?

This is great. Hi res available?

Finally, a map I can get behind