INSIDE THE EARTH

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 13

INSIDE THE EARTH

VISIT TO MAPPARIUM

I have been, for a change, into the centre of the earth, writes Lord BadenPowell in the "Daily Mail." No, not down a mine, but into the centre of a huge hollow globe made of glass on which is painted a complete map of the world. You walk into this great glass room on a bridge across the middle of it. It is thirty feet across. The bridge itself is made of glass, so that you seem to be floating in the middle of the globe.

If you look down between your feet you see the South Pole and Antarctic below you, while right up overhead is the North Pole and the Arctic, and around you are Africa, India, China, America and other countries, all on a very large scale with their principal towns clearly marked. Even the depths of the different parts of the seas are shown.

Also one sees unexpected things such as the fact that England is further north than Newfoundland, and New York is on the same latitude as Madrid. And so on. One could spend hours in that globe studying geography. The globe is called a Mapparium and is in the great building in Boston which forms the headquarters of the Christian Science Church. The whole building is wonderful, more like a city than a building, with its shops and library and vast numbers ol floors..

; Mr. V. Mardon, of the Dunedin office of the Public Works Department, has been transferred to Wellington.