World Crate

Learn more about maps, build your own spinning globe, and start exploring the world!

Illustration of Anya the Cricket and Milo the Sandpiper holding travel luggage

"Did you know that the very first globe was created in Greece more than 2000 years ago by a man named Crates?!"

Explore:

  • Geography
  • Continents
  • Map Reading

Fun Facts

  1. Photo by John Phelan via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

      Meet Globezilla

    1. Actually, the world's biggest spinning globe is named Eartha. It weighs about 5,600 pounds and is more than 41 feet in diameter. That's almost as wide as a bus! You can see it rotating in the headquarters of the DeLorme mapping corporation in Yarmouth, Maine.

  2. illustration by alexopalexoism/shutterstock

      Travel Tip

    1. One of the world's oldest globes is the Hunt-Lenox globe. It’s about 500 years old. It’s made of copper and is less than 5 inches in diameter. This little globe has a big warning for adventurous travelers: one unexplored part of the world is labeled in Latin, "Here be dragons."

  3. illustration by koya979/shutterstock

      Wide World

    1. The Atlas Crate globe is a perfect sphere but, in reality, the Earth is not… quite. The earth’s spin pushes a little extra earth and water to the area near the equator. Like many of us, our planet has a little bulge around the waistline.

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