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A popular example of a south-up oriented map designed as a political statement is "McArthur's Universal Corrective Map of the World" (1979). An insert on this map explains that the Australian, Stuart McArthur, sought to confront "the perpetual onslaught of 'downunder' jokes—implications from Northern nations that the height of a country's ...
English: A map of the hemisphere centred on 133, -27, using an orthographic projection, created using gringer's Perl script with Natural Earth Data (1:50000 resolution, simplified to 0.25px). Australia is highlighted in red.
This W3C-invalid world map was created with Adobe Illustrator. This W3C-invalid SVG world map was uploaded with Commonist . This Adobe SVG world map is very large because TUBS kept the superfluous Adobe PGF or other CDATA garbage
{{Image label begin | image = Australia location map recolored.png | alt = Australia map. Western Australia in the west third with capital Perth, Northern Territory in the north center with capital Darwin, Queensland in the northeast with capital Brisbane, South Australia in the south with capital Adelaide, New South Wales in the northern southeast with capital Sydney, and Victoria in the far ...
If the azimuthal equidistant projection map is centered about a point whose antipodal point lies on land and the map is extended to the maximum distance of 20,000 km (12,427 mi) the antipode point smears into a large circle. This is shown in the example of two maps centered about Los Angeles, and Taipei.
In 1989 and 1990, after some internal debate, seven North American geographic organizations adopted a resolution rejecting all rectangular world maps, a category that includes both the Mercator and the Gall–Peters projections, [20] [21] though the North American Cartographic Information Society notably declined to endorse it.
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English: Orthographic map of Australia centered at 26.75° S, 133.25° E. Official territory. Claimed territories. Date: 2011-509-06: ... World maps Africa.