Looking at a globe close-up is a wonderful thing.
Interacting with a round replica of our world gives an entirely different
sensation to say looking at Google maps and even a physical atlas doesn’t really
give the true geographical sense of our planet. Two dimensional maps, often
relying on the Mercator Projection, can show Greenland to be the size of all of
Africa when it’s really more like Mexico. It takes a globe to really see that
Texas may be the largest state in the continental U.S. but Australia’s largest
state is three times its size. Or that the entire eastern seaboard of America
fits quite comfortably into Kazakhstan.
For Peter Bellerby, a passion for globes has quite
unexpectedly turned into a successful business—his company is one of the
world’s only remaining traditional globe makers. “I think everyone has some
sort of soft spot for globes,” he explains. “Maps are wonderful but globes are
tangible and tell so much more of a story."
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