Anyone have a map of a continent at home for habitat knowledge?

[elephantnose3334]

I got a laminated physical map of South America for my birthday from grandparents 9 days ago, despite it arrived late rather than in Dec 20. It's almost 10 years old and Maps International haven't updated yet, but I like it. I might use it for knowledge of rivers that are in the continent. It may sound silly, but do you have a physical map of a continent for habitat knowledge?

 

[Fishmanic]

I have a very large world map that takes up one wall of my office. There are 5 working clocks above the map and a model plane I built suspended from the ceiling.

 

[elephantnose3334]

I have a very large world map that takes up one wall of my office. There are 5 working clocks above the map and a model plane I built suspended from the ceiling.
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Cool! Do you have other maps of a single continent only used for habitat research?

 

[Colin_T]

I used to have maps of Australia, plus each state, and various maps of areas in the states, mainly in WA, NSW and Qld. I also had maps of New Guinea. I used the maps to look for waterways to collect fish from.

 

[elephantnose3334]

I used to have maps of Australia, plus each state, and various maps of areas in the states, mainly in WA, NSW and Qld. I also had maps of New Guinea. I used the maps to look for waterways to collect fish from.

Interesting. How old were the maps?

 

[Fish Fanatic34]

I used to have maps of Australia, plus each state, and various maps of areas in the states, mainly in WA, NSW and Qld. I also had maps of New Guinea. I used the maps to look for waterways to collect fish from.

Have you ever collected from the Torres Strait Islands?

 

[GaryE]

I had maps of Cameroon and Gabon, a road map about 20 years old. It was in excellent detail.

I now use google earth, and have a lot of placemarks with info as I try to put it together in my head. I find it interesting to see how how evolution has worked with geology.

I also had local maps that allowed me to stand back and look at how details merged into each other, for small fish fishing. They went by the wayside as I stopped looking for Canadian fish.

The human side of maps change - placenames, country names, borders and boundaries. The geology takes a lot longer, so what matters in a map is very stable.

 

[Colin_T]

Interesting. How old were the maps?

I got the maps in the 1980s and 90s.

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Have you ever collected from the Torres Strait Islands?

nope, never been there

 

[Ichthys]

I have some very simple internet pictures of Africa and the Americas showing all the different river systems in different colours. What I would love is detailed maps showing the pHs of rivers as different colours, with hardness / tds info for each. This info is available for all rivers that have been collected from. It’s just not collated in one place.