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The Afro-Latinosaurus Rex

Available in: English
15 01 2010
Countries:
AFRICA
Tags:
history, maps

The always awesome Strange Maps blog had this great map sequence that gives a different perspective on the pre-historic earth puzzle which "reverses the drift that continues to widen the Atlantic Ocean, and returns to the age of the dinosaurs in another way". Here you have what the author calls the Afro-Latinosaurus Rex, in which the narrow southern strip of South America shared by Chile and Argentina is the beast’s lower jaw, Africa’s southern part its upper jaw. And "the big, blunt bulk of West Africa is the animal’s neck. Lake Victoria, the greatest of African lakes, doubles as the menacing eye of the Afro-Latinosaurus…"

The Afro-Latinosaurus Rex

Comments:

22 01 2010 gigiatta

Quelle imagination! :)