Bad Map Projection South America
Bad Map Projection: South America
[A map of the world, but every landmass has been replaced with South America, rotated and resized to roughly match the real landmasses they represent. South America is correct, except that the islands at the southern tip of the continent also have been switched to a small South America.]
[Caption below the panel:] Bad Map Projection #358: Oops, all South Americas!

This is the third comic in the series of Bad Map Projections displaying Bad Map Projection #358: Oops, all South Americas!. It came almost three years after the second 1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones (#79) (3 years after the first). And was first followed one and a half year later by 2489: Bad Map Projection: The Greenland Special (#299).
The comic shows a map projection in which every continent and large island has just been replaced with a differently scaled and rotated version of the continent of South America .
By overlaying this map with the selection of map projections presented in 977: Map Projections , it seems that the "underlying" projection used here is the Winkel tripel projection , also used in 2242: Ground vs Air .
The comic is similar to joke map designs in which continents like Africa and South America have been swapped, or where someone will jokingly replace Greenland with South America.
The caption of the comic is a reference to the Cap'n Crunch cereal type that became a meme, Oops! All Berries .
Interestingly on the original South America, the archipelago or main island (hard to tell) of Tierra del Fuego is replaced with a small South America, while all other South Americas, including the one replacing the Tierra del Fuego, include it in their shape.
The title text claims that the map projection does a good job preserving distance and azimuth, the joke being that the distance and azimuth being preserved for the non-South America continents are those of South America and not the original continent. Note that for the map as drawn in the comic, while this is true for most of the larger landmasses, many of the smaller South Americas are distorted more significantly (such as the South Americas that replace New Zealand).
From roughly left to right and top to bottom, the South Americas replace:
These are the 26 largest non-Antarctic landmasses, plus 2 peninsulas of those landmasses, and 8 more islands.
See also related comics with map changes in comics 1500: Upside-Down Map and 1653: United States Map .
[A map of the world, but every landmass has been replaced with South America, rotated and resized to roughly match the real landmasses they represent. South America is correct, except that the islands at the southern tip of the continent also have been switched to a small South America.]
[Caption below the panel:] Bad Map Projection #358: Oops, all South Americas!
