a miller cylindrical projection (of a SPHERE, btw) then. That makes the border the north 'pole', the south 'pole' and the two sides of the international date line.
first, how was the pacific theater of World War 2 possible then? crossing from Hawaii to japan in that map looks impossible to me, yet somehow we got an atomic bomb from America to japan....
second, cargo vessels run an American/Asian route all the time. Why dont they fall off?