National Geographic Map of the Day: The Marvelous Land of Oz

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on August 14, 2008 at 12:44 pm



Illustration: James E. Haff and Dick Martin / International Wizard of Oz Club (1980)

National Geographic Map of the Day has a really neat (and zoomable) fictional map of the Marvelous Land of Oz, illustrated by James E. Haff and Dick Martin for the International Wizard of Oz Club (apparently there is such a thing) based on L. Frank Baum’s books The Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz.

And did you know that when the movie version of The Wizard of Oz opened in 1939, the very first theater that screened it was in the small town of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin? Three days later, the movie premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Link – Thanks Marilyn Terrell!


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5 comments to "National Geographic Map of the Day: The Marvelous Land of Oz"

  1. bean
    August 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    Thanks to that stupid Russian invasion, I looked at that map and immediately thought of how difficult it would be to defend the capital if one of those outer quadrants fell.

  2. Polx
    August 14th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    Wow.... an oblong continent.. or is this the mercator map of planet Oz?

  3. Edward
    August 14th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    The original of this map is much older than 1980. My family had a complete set of the Oz books in the 1960s and that map was in quite a few of them.

    Baum was prolific and wrote many other series for children. The public, and his publishers, pushed him for more tales from the "Land of Ahs", so he transported most of them into Oz and created all the places on the map.

  4. travelina
    August 14th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Did you know the right answer to the trivia question about how many minutes the actress Margaret Hamilton (who plays the Wicked Witch of the West and Miss Gulch) appears on screen during the movie? I guessed wrong.

    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/2008/08/12

  5. Lionheart
    August 15th, 2008 at 5:51 am

    I never liked the film.


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