World's Largest Globe

After a discussion with the FP Gal last week, I decided to try and figure out where the world's largest map is. I expected to find that some enterprising city would have painted a city square with a map of the world or something like that. If they have, I didn't find it. Instead I found something called 'Eartha'.

Eartha is a 3-dimensional scale model of our earth with mountains and landforms in full 3D, that rotates and revolves, simulating the earth’s real movements. Eartha was given the title of "World's Largest Revolving/Rotating Globe" by the editors of the Guinness Book of World Records in 1999, and still holds that record today. It measures 41.5 ft in diameter. Unveiled July 23, 1998 Eartha took two years to build and represents earth as it is seen from space. It rotates and revolves on a specially designed and built mechanized, cantilever arm.

This globe is located in Yarmouth, Maine, which is only a hundred miles, give or take, from Acadia National Park (New England's only National Park). Let's see if I can find a good picture...
Kind of looks like the north shore, doesn't it? What else is interesting about it...? Well, it was the first National Park east of the Mississippi. It's roads were created privately by Rockefeller. And it does look beautiful.