If you looked straight out across the Atlantic Ocean from the east seashore of the United States what would you expect to be facing ? It ’s fairly potential that you would really be watch the west coast of Australia and possibly even Asia ’s south coast , if you could hypothetically see that far .
In a project call Beyond the Sea , cartographerAndy Woodruffhas make a serial of map showing where our line of sight actually leads us if we gaze out over the sea . What we would potentially see is all to do with Earth ’s curvature , but also , coastlines are often jag and face in all variety of direction .
Andy really did a lot of the pegleg - workplace and calculations himself , as well as designing the graphics . As heexplains fullyon his website : “ Taking ‘ across the sea ’ to mean directly across , vertical to the coast , then what ’s across the ocean depends on where you ’re endure !
“ To get a crude mind of what guidance the universe ’s coastline face , I ’m calculating the angle between every twain of side by side coastal peak inmedium scale Natural Earth data point , then placing a point in between them and measuring the opinion from there establish on that angle . ”
Each mapping show up the coastal view to the label continent . So , for example , the mapping below shows that Asia can be date from coastline of Africa , Australia , and even South America .
All images courtesy of Andy Woodruff
Asia
Europe
Australia and Oceania
Africa
South America
Antarctica
