On the map shown here, the standard parallels of 30ºS and 60ºS are chosen to optimize the presentation of the Southern Hemisphere, emphasizing the fact that the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, vast as they are, are yet merely lobes of one great World Ocean.

Projected inside AutoCAD® by Ptolemytm map projection software by W. Murray Sexton, from the Micro World Database, available from the Central Intelligence Agency. 

 §John P. Snyder, Map Projections--A Working Manual, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, United States Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1987, pp. 98-103..

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Stereographic Hemispheres (c) W. Murray Sexton.  All rights reserved.

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