To mark the 69th anniversary of MGM’s Wizard of Oz – it debuted on Aug. 12, 1939, in Oconomowoc, Wisc., of all places — National Geographic Magazine features a 1980 map of The Marvelous Land of Oz by James E. Haff and Dick Martin as its Map of the Day.
It’s interactive, so you can zoom in on such locales as Wise Acres (hyuk) and Catty Corners (hyuk-hyuk).
(Via Neatorama)
August 14th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Heh … I almost posted this earlier.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
This is one of my favorite fantasy maps ever.
In earlier versions Baum actually put the yellow Winkie country to the east and the blue Munchkin country to the west, despite describing them as west/east in the text of the books. I suppose you could argue (for an Ozian No-Prize) that Oz really did exist in a true “mirror universe!”