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The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of an icosahedron. The resulting map is heavily interrupted in order to reduce shape and size distortion compared to other world maps , but the interruptions are chosen to lie in the ocean.
Apex Legends features a map named Olympus, a vibrant futuristic city flying high above the planet Psamathe. Various floating islands are featured in Genshin Impact. The most notable of these is the mysterious floating island known as Celestia (Chinese: 天空岛) which looms high in the skies over Teyvat, and is said to be "the realm of the ...
The island was also referred to by the Norse as Skuy (misty isle), [15] Skýey or Skuyö (isle of cloud). [1] The traditional Gaelic name is An t-Eilean Sgitheanach (the island of Skye), An t-Eilean Sgiathanach being a more recent and less common spelling.
Aerial render of the Build The Earth project on a modified Airocean World Map. Build the Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. [1] During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the server aimed to provide players with the opportunity to virtually experience and construct ...
Sky island may also refer to: Sky Islands (Ramsey Lewis album), 1993; Sky Islands (Caldera album), 1977; Sky Island, a 1912 children's fantasy novel by L. Frank Baum; Sky Island Scenic Byway, Pima County, Arizona, USA; a highway; See also. Floating island (fiction), a fictional landmass that floats in the sky; Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK; Island ...
Thinkin' Things is a series of educational video games by the Edmark Corporation and released for Windows and Mac in the 1990s. Entries in the series include Thinkin' Things Collection 1 (Formerly Thinkin Things) (1993), Thinkin' Things Collection 2 (1994), Thinkin' Things Collection 3 (1995), the adventure game Thinkin' Things: Sky Island Mysteries (1998), Thinkin’ Things Galactic Brain ...
Sky Island: Being the Further Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, and published in 1912 by the Reilly & Britton Company [1] —the same constellation of forces that produced the Oz books in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Floating island La Rota in Posta Fibreno lake, Italy. Natural floating islands are composed of vegetation growing on a buoyant mat of plant roots or other organic detritus. In aquatic regions of Northwestern Europe, several hundred hectares or a couple thousand acres of floating meadows (German Schwingrasen, Dutch trilveen) have been preserved, which are partly used as agricultural land ...