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Why does the Pacific Ocean appear on both the left and the right sides of the map?
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∙ 9y ago
The Earth's land area is not symmetrically arranged around the globe, the Pacific being much wider than the Atlantic, but Alaska and Siberia extend to almost reach each other across the Bering Straits.
Also, the 180º longitude line passes through the least amount of land; really just the far Eastern peninsular of Siberia. Hence it being the International Date Line.
So to depict the entire land area of the Earth on a map it is easiest to do so by placing the Greenwich Meridian slightly to the left of the centre of the sheet, hence dividing the Pacific in two on opposite sides of the map.
A map based on the 180º line would show the Pacific intact, but break the continents. Maps plotted of specific oceans or continents do follow this example.
On my particular map the two finger-tips of land forming the Bering Straits' coast are printed off the main chart, in the sheet margins!
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