The World, a polar projection
The world a polar projection, with modified extensions interrupted for southern Hemisphere: "This world map is designed to show the relative positions of land areas for air connections to the principal theaters of operations."
- Date
- November 22, 1943
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Army Orientation Course
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 3,008 × 2,500 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (US Military).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US Military; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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