Front:
MERICA
PRENCH WEST AFRICA
LEGN
OUTR
MARICA
GLOBE OF THE EARTH, PAN AMERICAN TERMINAL BLDG., MIAMI, FLORIDA
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R. E. SIMPSON
Back:
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POST 143-72
DISTRIBUTED BY R. E. SIMPSON, MIAMI, FLORIDA
THIS GLOBE' OF THE EARTH
is steel; weight 344 tons; diameter 10 feet; circumference
31 feet, 5 inches.
Shows airlines of the world, in addition to chief geographi-
cal features, including ocean depths.
The globe is oriented so that its axis parallels the axis of the
earth underfoot, its North Pole pointing to the North Star.
On this scale (i inch to 64 miles) the greatest ocean depth,
34,218 feet just east of the Philippines would be only
1/10 of an inch below the surface of this ball, showing that,
compared with the bulk of the earth, the great oceans are
relatively only a thin covering of water.
The deepest man has gone beneath the surface of the earth
(William Beebe, who descended 2,200 feet into the ocean at
Bermuda) would on this scale be scarcely through the paint
- 1/150 of an inch down.
The highest man has ascended off the earth (Captain Albert
W. Stevens, 14 miles) would be but 14 of an inch off the
ū surface of this globe.
wi The world's highest mountain (Mt. Everest in the Himalayas,
29,141 feet) would project less than 1/10 of an inch from
this globe's surface.
All the people in the world, packed into a box, could on
this scale be contained in a case less than 1/100 of an inch
each way in size.
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