Last day of trading at our 280 Pitt Street Store will be 25th Jan 2012
Opening at our new premises on 1st Feb 2012, come and see us at..
Shop 16
HENRY DEANE PLAZA
14 - 18 Lee Street, Sydney NSW 2000
On the Broadway end of the Devonshire Tunnel (Underneath Central Railway Station)
The staff at Mapworld would like to wish everyone a Happy and Safe 2012.
To kick off those renovations you all have planned, Mapworld Sydney store, is offering a deal on ALL framed maps in stock. A MASSIVE 20 - 80% OFF all framed maps currently in stock! Be quick. (Only applies to stock currently on hand)
Grab yourself a small or Large World map, Regional or City map Framed and ready to hang!
After a few months of being Out Of Print, the NSW Lands department has released the 4th edition of the HORNSBY 1:25,000 topographical map. Its the first to be released in the new series, inlcluding a new look and extra information.
Additional information on the new series maps include
Defined National Park and State Forest borders
More detailed names of bays and inlets
Local Government Names and borders
Emergency Services
You can order you Hornsby Map direct HERE
Our good friend Mike at Self Drive Safaris has brought in for us the latest and most up-to-date 4WD maps of Africa.
Tracks 4 Africa produce and offer great GPS and paper maps that will navigate you from Cape Town to Cairo. Their maps of Africa reflect where people travel and is packed with detail for the self drive and toured traveller. It covers many aspects like where to stay, eat, shopping, fuel, money matters, emergencies and obviously what to see and do when you visit a place.
There is currently a Namibia map, a Botswana map and a map covering Mozambique and Malawi in the series with more to be produced in the future.
The maps are available now HERE
If your thinking about a trip to Africa, make sure you chat to Mike and visit www.selfdrivesafaris.com.au for your tailor made Africa Adventure.
"The 'Times Atlas of the World' claims, while publicising its newest edition, that global warming has turned 15 percent of Greenland's former ice-covered land 'green and ice-free.'
Now, however, scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute say those figures, based on data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, are wrong. 'Recent satellite images of Greenland make it clear that there are in fact still numerous glaciers and permanent ice cover where the new Times Atlas shows ice-free conditions and the emergence of new lands,' they say in a letter that has been sent to the Times.
Others have pointed out that if 15 percent of Greenland ice cover had been lost, then sea levels would have risen by 1 meter... which has not happened. Perhaps yet another climate controversy is brewing." An update to the Sciencemag.com story pinpoints the probable source of the error: a 2001 map from the NSIDC illustrates Greenland's central ice sheet without showing any of the peripheral glaciers. The Atlas editors may have seen this map and misinterpreted it. Says the article, "Now glaciologists are left trying to figure out how not understate the importance of the extent glacial ice melt, while at the same time correcting the error."
Response from HaperCollins (Times Atlas publishers)
