Map of the ocean on a blue background with 'The Ocean Map' branding.

Ocean Map Magnet

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The giant Ocean Map at the centre of the National Maritime Museum turns our view of the world inside out. While other maps focus on countries and land mass, the Ocean Map is all about water! Sometimes referred to as a 'map of the world according to fish', the Map is designed to show us how all the world's oceans are connected.

The design of this magnet retains the map’s distinctive colours and detailed cartography, creating a practical keepsake that celebrates the beauty of the world's oceans.

The Ocean Map is based on a type of map known as the ‘Spilhaus projection’.  

In cartography, a projection refers to the way mapmakers represent a round globe on a flat surface.

The Spilhaus projection was devised in the 1940s by the oceanographer and inventor Athelstan Spilhaus. Born in South Africa in 1911, Spilhaus emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. He developed the bathythermograph (a device for measuring ocean depth and temperature), established a programme to support marine research, and published works on everything from future cities to mechanical toys. 

He also created the world ocean map now known as the Spilhaus projection.

90mm x 65mm

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Ocean Map Magnet
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