Mar 29, 2016 3:56 PM

Gallery: Maps of What's Across the Horizon From the World's Beaches

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Andy Woodruff created a series of maps that visualize what landmass is directly across from any given beach.
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Woodruff, a cartographer, was interested to see what that might look like once he took the coastline's direction and Earth's curve into account.

Andy Woodruff
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Each map, which uses the Robinson projection, is organized by destination.
Andy Woodruff
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The bright spots on the map show the origin.

Andy Woodruff
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And those origin lines lead to the most direct landmass on any given continent.
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The resulting visualizations show how the most direct route from one beach to the next is sometimes half a world away.

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Woodruff's data shows 1,846 direct routes to Antarctica.

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