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Earth Without Water

Drain the oceans and this is what's left: ridges, trenches, and drowned mountain ranges from the ETOPO relief model.

Earth Without Water folding globe net — cut, fold, and glue

About this globe

Drain the oceans and this is the planet you get — NOAA's global relief model of the seafloor and land together. The mid-ocean ridges, Earth's longest mountain chain, zip around the globe like seams on a baseball.

The pale halos around continents are the shelves — drowned land, walkable during the ice ages.

deepest trenchhighest peak

Data: NOAA NCEI GLOBE Global Relief

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Print at 100% scale. Cut along solid lines, fold along dashed lines, glue the tabs. Your PDF can take up to a minute to prepare — hang tight after clicking.

In the US? Print the A4 file and choose “fit to page” — it scales cleanly onto Letter paper.

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"Earth Without Water" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/earth-without-water · Data: NOAA NCEI GLOBE Global Relief

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