Skaberen af Verdenskortet, Søren Poulsen, blev født i 1888 i Danmark. Efter en tid i Amerika vendte han tilbage til sin hjemegn, hvor han overtog sit barndomshjem ved Klejtrup Sø. Da man en dag skulle afvande de omkringliggende enge, dukkede en sten, der mindede meget om Jylland, frem.
Da fik Søren Poulsen idéen til at bygge sin egen lille verden…
Med primitive hjælpemidler blev store sten flyttet ud på isen om vinteren og anbragt der, hvor de skulle bruges. Når foråret kom, kunne stenene vippes på plads, og langsomt tog verdenskortet sin form…
- Verdenskortet er bygget af dansk-amerikaneren
Søren Poulsen i årerne 1944-69.
- Kortet måler 45x90 m.
- 1 breddegrad på 111 km svarer til 27 cm på kortet.
- For bedre at se den rette afstand mellem landene
er den nordlige halvkugle markeret 2 steder,
da en rund kugle er vanskelig at flade ud.
- Ækvator er markeret med røde pæle.
"The World Map" in Klejtrup
Søren Poulsen, the creator of "The World Map", was born in Denmark in 1888. Having spent part of his life in America, he returned to the village where he was born by the lake in Klejtrup. In 1943, in connection with the drainage of the surrounding meadows, the finding of a stone, shaped like Jutland, inspired Søren Poulsen to create a small world of his own. During the winter months, with the use of primitive tools, big stones were placed carefully on the ice – and when spring arrived they could easily be tilted into place – and slowly the World Map was taking shape
- The World Map was created 1944-1969 by the Danish American, Søren Poulsen
- The Map measures 45 metres by 90 (49 yards by 98).
- One 111-kilometer (69 miles) latitude corresponds to 27 centimetres (11 inches) on the map.
- Owing to the difficulties of spreading out our planet‘s globular shape,
the Northern Hemisphere is marked in two places, thus ensuring a better
impression of the correct distances between the countries.
- Red poles mark the Equator.