{"id":355,"date":"2025-05-12T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/?p=355"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:36:40","slug":"are-there-really-seven-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/are-there-really-seven-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there really \u201cSeven Seas?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I stumbled across a beautiful view of the the world\u2019s ocean(s) that shows us a beautiful truth about them. This map projection apparently had a moment of Internet fame in 2018, but I missed it. First developed in 1942 by Athelstan Spilhaus, a geophysicist and oceanographer, it centres on Antarctica and displays the oceans as single continuous body of water. Wow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/spilhaus2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/spilhaus2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/spilhaus2-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like all projections of our planet onto a flat surface, something has to give to allow the cartographer to show us what is distorted by other projections. In this case, the continents are what\u2019s broken up and distorted to give us this beautiful view of our blue planet. You can find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/756bcae18d304a1eac140f19f4d5cb3d\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/756bcae18d304a1eac140f19f4d5cb3d\">this article on ARCGIS<\/a>. However, you\u2019ll also find lots of interesting stuff just doing a web search for \u201cSpilhaus projection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I stumbled across a beautiful view of the the world\u2019s ocean(s) that shows us a beautiful truth about them. This map projection apparently had a moment of Internet fame<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/are-there-really-seven-seas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are there really \u201cSeven Seas?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,19,18],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-earth","tag-ocean","tag-spilhaus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seascouts.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}