Scale 1:50,000,000. Approx. 800 miles per in. ; Briemeister elliptical equal-area projection (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°).
Note
Depths shown by shading and soundings. "This is a modified and completely re-drawn version of the map appearing in Fortune Magazine, November 1959, under the title 'The newly discovered world beneath the waves'." Copyright: 1961 by Richard Edes Harrison. "The original four-color version was copyrighted in 1959 by Time, Inc." Issued as a supplement to "Annals of the Association of American Geographers, volume 51, no. 3, September 1961." Includes text and note.