Map not drawn to scale. Or reality.

I’ve recently been watching Kolchak: The Night Stalker, a fun precursor to The X-Files that only ran for a single season in 1974-75. In the episode “Primal Scream” a team of scientists in the Arctic who are working for an oil company bring a cell sample back to Chicago that then thaws out in their lab and turns into a murderous pre-human. At one point Kolchak goes to the office of the vice-president of the oil company, who explains some of their drilling operations by pointing to a giant wall map showing the Arctic region.

Or at least one person in the art department’s rather fanciful notion of what the Arctic region looks like. I don’t know where to begin, so maybe I’ll just let the map speak for itself.