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The Dymaxion Map | A “satisfactory deck plan of the six and one half sextillion tons Spaceship Earth.”

The Fuller Projection Map is the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in one ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents. It was developed by R. Buckminster Fuller who “By 1954, after working on the map for several decades,” finally realized a “satisfactory deck plan of the six and one half sextillion tons Spaceship Earth.” The Buckminster Fuller Institute

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  • Casey Klahn July 19, 2017, 1:49 PM

    It’s an eye-opener when you make actual size comparisons. Love maps.