Ocean Fronts of the Southern Hemisphere

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Find the fronts and zones of the Southern Hemisphere. A few seas and land areas thrown in to make it harder. Still, it's an easy game.

Map by Hannes Grobe of the Alfred Wegener Institute

Category: Science

Tags: geography, antarctica, oceanography, oceans, science

Created by tickman June 21, 2008

Rating: 5
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tickman  June 22, 2008

Adding to my previous comment:

More to the point, I'm unlikely to find another map on this topic. And I'm not artistic enough to make one for myself.

tickman  June 22, 2008

It does seem to have some more diagramatic (v.s. strictly cartographic) features. Still, I don't see any major inaccuracies. Things certainly look different in the polar perspective than in (for example) the standard Atlanto-centric Mercator projection.

And the projection used makes a great deal of difference. It is fair to say that most maps on this site (or anywhere) are not very accurate. They all have flaws due to the limitations of the projection.

This has led people to try to create "politically correct" maps which address the flaws of the standard Mercator. Of course, they introduce their own problems. The best projection is a globe, but we can't do that here.

So as an approximate representation, largely schematic, I think this map is OK.

briantravelman  June 22, 2008

This map is not very accurate.

tickman  June 21, 2008

On the topic of Oceanography (includes the map) see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanography

See the map here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Antarctic_frontal-system_hg.png

The file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License

Details:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

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Highscores - Ocean Fronts of the Southern HemispherePlace 1 - 3
 Player NameScoreTimeDate of Play
1 Itachi 100% 1:27.1 min. 2008-06-21
2 tassos 100% 2:07.1 min. 2008-06-22
3 briantravelman 44% 2:41.5 min. 2008-06-21
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All Time High - 100% in 1:27.1 min.

Set by Itachi June 22, 2008


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