Modern World Antique Ray & Co Wall Map PAPER

Modern World Antique-Style Map from Ray & Co. (136 x 92 cm / 53" x 36" approx.) offers a combination of current political information presented in the style of old antique maps, with ships and monsters on the high seas, old style italic typefaces, etc – a lovely way to present the modern world in a good old-fashioned way!

Country, city and other place names are given in English. Plenty of names of geographical features are provided to supplement the lovely drawings of mountain chains. On oceans names and/or directions of currents and trade winds are marked, with the prevailing wind directions also indicated over some of the land masses. The Equator and the Greenwich Meridian are indicated by colourful lines, with other latitude and longitude lines drawn at 15° intervals and presented with clocks indicating approximate time zones. A rosette gives the points of the compass and panels presents the old flag alphabet with the Morse code and different types of knots.