This map is not “upside down”. It looks that way to us; the sense that north is up is a deeply ingrained one. It's grim up north, Dixie is away down south. Yet this is pure convention. The earth is a sphere in space. It has a north and a south, but no up and down.
by Neurospeptic (http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/07/world-turned-upside-down.html)
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