Hmmmm.........I've just been perusing that map at great length. I have never considered my self a real sailor although I was in the U.S. Navy for four years and was on three cruises from San Francisco and San Diego, California , in the United States of America, to Yokosuka, in Japan. For the life of me I don't remember ever going by way of the North Pole and Russia. I must have slept through the whole cruise and missed it all.......That is .....If we had used the Bipolar Azimuthal Equidistant Projection as our means of navigation ! LOL
Then I imagine you fell off the edge! How'd you get back - did you use JRoweSkeptic's aether (The Flat Earth Society) transport mechanism?
I imagine we played it safe and kept close to the coast of Alaska and Russia to avoid getting near the edge.
On second thought it looks as if it wouldn't be much farther by going east, via the Panama Canal, Suez Canal, etc. and on to Japan.
Maybe that's it. The weather was always warm all the way.
I think we need someone with more expertise in navigation for an explanation.
Not being an expert, but I have one.
That map is just the Bipolar Projection of the Globe. It is even worse than the Unipolar Projection as far as distortion is concerned.
Flat Earthers, let's face it , you have just got to come up with something better. LOL.
I am afraid this thread is headed for CN.