The Atlas of the Earth

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Atlas was also a legendary king of Mauretania, the land of the Mauri in antiquity roughly corresponding with modern Morocco and Algeria . According to Hesiod, Theogony 507–511, Clymene, one of the Oceanids, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, at Hesiod, Theogony 351, was the mother by Iapetus of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, while according to Apollodorus, 1. For example, Taiwan (ROC), the island state off the southeast coast of China, with a functioning multi-party democracy and a population of 23. For users of Maps Embed API, Google uses cookies to determine the number of unique users of the API. Atlas was the son of the Titans Iapetus and Clymene, and his siblings were Epimetheus, Menoetius and Prometheus.

It is also the largest of its planetary system's terrestrial planets, making it the largest solid body in the solar system, and it is the only place in the universe known to humans to support life. Similarly in the case of Heracles, when he had brought to the Greeks the doctrine of the sphere, he gained great fame, as if he had taken over the burden of the firmament which Atlas had borne, since men intimated in this enigmatic way what had actually taken place. TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Canada is home to more than 600 First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities, which represent more than 50 Nations and 50 Indigenous languages.

Hercules managed to trick the Titan into swapping places temporarily under the guise of acquiring cushions to put on his shoulders to aid in the weight bearing. Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. If you use any of the content on this page in your own work, please use the code below to cite this page as the source of the content. There are other states or countries or country-like geopolitical entities that are not members of the UN. The map shows the continents, oceans, major countries, and a network of lines (graticules) representing meridians and parallels, the geographic coordinate system.Why we exist Soar was created because the world needs a scalable, collective and accountable knowledge base of all its maps and images. The Digital Atlas Project is an online gateway to the world of geography for students and teachers from around the world. Our history From humble beginnings, coding out of a small shed, our team have always been passionate about making geospatial data accessible and making a positive impact in the world.

For Atlas had worked out the science of astrology to a degree surpassing others and had ingeniously discovered the spherical nature of the stars, and for that reason was generally believed to be bearing the entire firmament upon his shoulders.According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito.