[Cailean]

So I'm leafing through the latest issue of National Geographic and I come across this letter:

Your lighthearted illustration of the Earth has the unfortunate side effect of reinforcing a misguided "north is up" perspective, which is, of course, an entirely artificial construct. As a transplant from the Southern Hemisphere who discourages being identified as being frm down under, I would have preferred to see a pile of dirt that had fallen north from the "lower" part of the planet. Why not discombobulate a few northerners by publishing a view of the planet oriented so that Antarctica is at the top?
Chris Hansen
Shorewood, Wisconsin

Is this view common to most living below the equator? Or has this guy just heard one too many Wisconsinites do Crocodile Dundee impressions and gone off the deep end?


*goes off to find National Geographic issue with troublesome illustration*

Well, here it is. Doesn't look offensive to me, then again, I'm from 'up top'.