Every CONTINENTAL sphere features the most up-to-date cartography, country boundaries, capitals, major cities, bodies of water, and latitude and longitude markings. Because the spheres are transparent, you can better understand geopolitical relationships and how we travel around our planet. An information-packed booklet and wax pencil for marking your travels are included. There's even a Certificate of Authenticity signed and dated by the craftsman who created your sphere.

CONTINENTALS are available in five-, eight-, twelve-, sixteen-, and thirty-inch diameter spheres. Choose the beautiful Atlas colors on either the sculptured or pedestal base. A floorstand is also available for the sixteen-inch sphere (overall height is thirty-eight inches) and thirty-inch sphere.

Also available, the CONTINENTAL Geographical Learning Center. This extraordinary learning tool combines a twelve-inch Continental sphere with a special pedestal base encasing a deluxe Mapbook World Atlas. The Mapbook, compiled in conjunction with the Associated Press, includes demographic information by country details on specific locations, magnificent colored maps, and much more. This lovely combination is perfect for educating ourselves about the geography of our home planet.

The CONTINENTAL Sphere is also available in thirty-inch diameter, with a wonderfully hand crafted floorstand. The overall height of the sphere and base is forty-nine inches. It's the perfect sphere for boardrooms, lobbies, large residential rooms, or classroom presentations.

Expertly silk-screened white land masses, opaque black oceans, silver longitude and latitude markings, and gold nomenclature give the ONYX EARTHSPHERE a formal look with contemporary design. Paired with the Meridian Base, this model offers a classically elegant black and white presentation.

Here's the next-best thing to taking a ride on the space shuttle. STARSHIP EARTH II will help you explore the universe that surrounds us - from the many constellations in our heavens, to the movements of the Earth, Sun, and stars, the secrets of navigation, and much more.

A beautiful work of art, as well as a superb learning/teaching tool, the STARSHIP EARTH II is a three-dimensional star atlas for the unaided eye. It is a perfect companion to increase your enjoyment of star gazing with your binoculars or telescope as well.

The impressive transparent sixteen-inch diameter outer sphere of the STARSHIP EARTH II displays updated and improved data from Sky Catalogue 2000.0, all eighty-eight constellations and more than 1,100 naked-eye stars, plus many prominent deep-sky objects against a precision grid of Right Ascension and Declination lines. The Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds are shown in a wispy translucent blue, and deep sky objects are keyed to type. They're all accurately hand silkscreened on the sphere's interior surface for long lasting protection. Stars are identified by name, Greek letter designations, brightness, from first to fifth magnitude, and distance from the earth in light years. The outer sphere also highlights astral equivalents used to locate stars. An easy three-step setting allows you to reproduce the Earth, Sun, and star movements for any time, date, and location in the world.Understand more about how the Sun rises and sets, and how the seasons change; surrounding the five-inch diameter inner Earth sphere is a fully adjustable horizon ring to help you visualize the horizon for any location on the planet.

Hand crafted of museum-quality acrylic, this sixteen-inch sphere rests on a sculptured acrylic desktop stand or an acrylic tripod floor stand. Includes a forty-eight page instruction book featuring new constellation, first magnitude star, double and multiple star, and deep sky showpiece tables, along with an activity section, written by the late internationally renowned astronomy expert George Lovi. You'll also receive a Certificate of Authenticity signed and dated by the craftsman who hand fashioned your spectacular model of the Earth In space.