The projection was developed in 1923 by
John Paul Goode to provide an alternative to the
Mercator projection for portraying global areal relationships. Goode offered variations of the interruption scheme for emphasizing the world’s land and the world’s oceans. Some variants include extensions that repeat regions in two different lobes of the interrupted map in order to show Greenland or eastern Russia undivided. The homolosine evolved from Goode’s 1916 experiments in
interrupting the
Mollweide projection. Because the Mollweide is sometimes called the "homolographic projection" (meaning,
equal-area map), Goode fused the two names "
homolographic" and "
sinusoidal" (from the sinusoidal projection) to create the name "homolosine". Common in the 1960s, the Goode homolosine projection is often called an "orange-peel map" because of its resemblance to the flattened rind of a hand-peeled orange. In its most common form, the map interrupts the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic, the South Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the entire east/west meridian of the map. ==Details==