Recapping the History of the Antipodes: Reappraising Absolute and Relative Connotations

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dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Donald Patrick
dc.contributor.authorStockwell, Nancy
dc.contributor.authorTiller, Jim
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-24T16:15:23Z
dc.date.available2023-01-24T16:15:23Z
dc.date.issued2014-11
dc.descriptionArticle originally published by Research in Geographic Educationen_US
dc.description.abstractDuring the first half of the 20th century teaching and learning about the antipodes were considered a fundamental element within the undergraduate geography curricula. However, in the 1970s the antipodes were absent from Bacon’s surveys of domain, core, and sphere concepts in human and physical geography. In fast forwarding to the 21st century, the term has virtually disappeared from introductory-level geography curricula. This exploration confirms that rather than being an obscure concept, the antipodes percolate across a diverse range of illustrations in mathematics, cartography, geology, astronomy, to cultural geography, literature and social theory. Our discourse supports reclaiming the antipodes for their geodetic value within the undergraduate introductory geography curriculum, but stresses sensitivities when using relative connotations in social, cultural, and political arenas.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAlbert, DP, NS Morris, and J Tiller. 2014. Recapping the History of the Antipodes: Reappraising Absolute and Relative Connotations. Research in Geographic Education 16(2): 5-25.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11875/3846
dc.publisherResearch in Geographic Educationen_US
dc.subjectAntipodesen_US
dc.subjectgeodesyen_US
dc.subjectgeographic illiteracyen_US
dc.subjectabsolute locationen_US
dc.subjectrelative locationen_US
dc.titleRecapping the History of the Antipodes: Reappraising Absolute and Relative Connotationsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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