Pre-Travel Random Thought #1

It occurred to me that our geographic view of the world is strongly influenced by a northern hemisphere perspective: But if we took a southern hemisphere perspective things would look very different.

The map of New Zealand from a conventional viewpoint looks like this:

 

But if we pause a moment and consider how things might have looked if the early map makers were from the southern hemisphere then we might have got used to seeing NZ as....... a boot!