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''Earth Platinum'', published by Millennium House in 2012,〔''Earth Platinum'', Millennium House, February 2012. ISBN 978-1-921811-11-1〕 is the world's largest atlas at 6 ft × 4.5 ft (1.8 m × 1.4 m). According to the Guinness World Records it surpasses the famous ''Klencke Atlas'' at the British Library, which held the record of the world's largest atlas since 1660. ==The atlas== ''Earth Platinum'' weighs and has 128 pages, each of which is so large it takes two hands (or people) to turn a page. Published in Australia, with the help of a team of over 88 cartographers from around the world, the book is a mixture of maps and gigapixel photography. The maps include large orthographic maps of each continent (showing political and physical features), maps of the oceans, (including shipwreck locations) and poles, as well as very detailed regional maps. The book also includes a double-page 6 feet x 9 feet layout of the world's flags. The atlas was printed in Italy and hand-bound in Hong Kong. Among its many spectacular images, ''Earth Platinum'' contains the world's largest image in a book, a photo of the Shanghai skyline. This image size is 272 gigapixels and made up of more than 12 thousand images tiled together. Published 20 February 2012, ''Earth Platinum'' follows publication of the "smaller" ''Earth Blue''〔''Earth Blue'', Millennium House. ISBN 978-1-921209-14-7〕 and ''Earth Gold'', both 2 ft x 18 inch, 30 kg, and both limited editions. ''Earth Platinum'' is priced at . There are only 31 copies of the book. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Earth Platinum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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