Mapa Mundi - World

Mollweide's political planisphere centered on the Australia, showing the entire Pacific Ocean with its islands. This cartographic projection, in which the Earth's globe is transformed into an ellipse of equivalent area, was developed by the German mathematician and astronomer Karl Mollweide.

The Mollweide projection is a pseudocylindrical equal-area cartographic projection, commonly used for maps of the world or the celestial sphere. Here, the planisphere shows the main features of the Pacific Ocean: large and scattered with islands.

The International Date Line, also known as the Greenwich antemeridian, is an imaginary line in the Pacific Ocean that marks the change from one day to the next when crossed. It follows the 180-degree meridian, passing through the Bering Strait and east of New Zealand.

Aerial view of Sydney, Australia. This is the most famous and populous city in country. The iconic Opera House and the Harbour Bridge are seen in the distance. Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur in the south and south-west.