6 Mar
2001
6 Mar
'01
8:41 p.m.
From: Deborah Day d.day@thefreeinternet.co.uk
I had always assumed that Russia and America would fight it out across the Pacific or North Pole - after all, why go across Europe when the two countries are actually adjacent round that side? It's only because all
the
maps have America on the left and Europe etc on the right and we tend to think that that is the way of the world - not may maps have the Pacific in the middle.
British atlases do. I have an American Hammond atlas on my shelves which puts the Americas in the middle, with the Eurasian continent split in two - Europe and Africa on the right hand side, Siberia and Asia on the left.
Neil