The World’s Connections, Mapped

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  09.30.09 | 3:30 PM ET

The New Scientist has a fantastic slideshow of world maps, showing global shipping lanes, railways, navigable rivers and more. The idea? To demonstrate how “little of the world’s land can now be thought of as inaccessible.” (Via The Morning News)

Tags: Geography for Fun and Profit, Global Village, Maps, Shrinking Planet

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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