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At Play in Mackinder's World: A Cartographic Essay
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Agriculturally productive areas of Russia to represent the general historical location of the steppes of Central Asia.
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Polar azimuthal equal-area projection of Mackinder’s map, with potential Canadian-Alaska “pivot area” of landlocked basins.
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Reconstructed “pivot area” based on drainage basins computed from global digital elevation models.
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Lower map emphasizes redrawn pivot area itself. Notice red lines west of Beijing representing Great Wall of China (dark red) and Wall of Genghis Khan (lighter red).
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The East-West orientation of railroads and roads in the pivot area. Major cities are displayed in red (within the pivot area) and dark yellow (outside the pivot area with the exception of Beijing) proportional to 2005 population.
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The North-South orientation of rivers at right angles to the roads and railroads of the pivot area (railroads are semi-transparent in the background). Also shown are world ports (World Port Index) displayed in three categories by size of vessel allowed (large, medium, or only small).
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Trace the East-West Trans-Siberian railway system as it intersects the rivers of the Ob, Yenisey, and Lena basins. Major cities are displayed in red proportional to 2005 population, and other Russian cities are displayed in black. Ports from the World Port Index are displayed in blue proportional to the size of vessel allowed.
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Zoomed in view of the city of Yakutsk in the Republic of Sahka (Yakutia) showing the city on the left side of the Lena River and the only highway south to the East-West Trans-Siberian railway system on the right side of the river.
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Map of ethnicities of the former Soviet Union, with major and minor political subdivisions of the Russian Federation. Russian people are shown in red, Turkic people are shown in bluish-green.
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Overlay on map of ethnicities of the former Soviet Union showing major (e.g., republics, krays, oblasts) and minor (e.g., rays) political subdivisions colored by “status” within the Russian Federation.
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Two territorial areas are highlighted. One is the Amur River basin, showing outer Manchurian territory on the other side of the yellow Chinese-Russian border. Another is the disputed southern Kuril Islands (territorial seas) north of Japan.
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The world at night illustrating population patterns in Russia, with Russian cities labeled.
