The One Minute Geographer: This Fragile Earth (3) Land, Water and Other Hemispheres

Land hemisphere, left; water hemisphere, right. Map from researchgate.net

We’ll start with the two exciting spheres: The land and water hemispheres! The earth’s surface is about 70% water, 30% land. (Technically 71%, 29%.) To demonstrate this, get that old globe out of your attic and turn it so that as you look at it, it’s centered on New Zealand. That’s colloquially called the ‘water hemisphere’ because that’s the half…