South-up map orientation

Related idioms used in popular song lyrics provide further evidence for the pervasiveness of "north-south bias" among English speakers, in particular with regard to wealth.

[4] Cultural diversity and media literacy educators use south-up oriented world maps to help students viscerally experience the frequently disorienting effect of seeing something familiar from a different perspective.

South-up maps are commonly available as novelties or sociopolitical statements in southern hemisphere locales, particularly Australia.

[9] A south-up oriented world map appears in episode "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" of The West Wing, and issues of cultural bias are discussed in relation to it.

American cartoonist Leo Cullum published a cartoon in The New Yorker titled, "Happy penguin looking at upside-down globe; Antarctica is on top" (April 20, 1992).

A south-up map of the world centered on the western Pacific Ocean and splitting the Atlantic Ocean
The Tabula Rogeriana , drawn by al-Idrisi in 1154
The Blue Marble photograph in its original orientation [ 1 ]
Political map of Europe, showing south at the top
América Invertida , drawn in 1943 by Joaquín Torres García .