Monday, April 25, 2011

Distances on a map can be misleading


Much like a lot of United States people, I also thought that Hawaii is just a hour or so off the coast of California. However, this is not the case Maui, Hawaii is actually about 5 hours away from Los Angeles, California.  As we can see in the picture I have taken from Google Earth, Hawaii is out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  This changed the way I think about the world because I thought Hawaii was much closer to California than it really is.  I then realized that this world is so much bigger than I thought originally.  This image was very eye opening for me and maybe for others that see this same image.

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