About World Globes

Map Types Offered on World Globes

Paper Maps

POLITICAL:  Country and state political boundaries are distinguished by bright, contrasting colors.

ANTIQUE:  Though these maps have an ‘Old World’ or antique appearance, they sport the latest cartography.

PHYSICAL:  The physical features of the Earth are highlighted on this type, also known as the World Ocean map.

STARLIGHT:  Distinguished by black oceans and brightly colored land masses,  this popular edition was marketed in the 1940’s and ’50’s and re-introduced in 1997.

Vinyl Maps

DIAMOND MARQUISE:  Strikingly beautiful and decorative, this uses crystal clear vinyl map printed with lustrous, metallic inks to create a very distinctive and attractive globe with the appearance of glass.

CRYSTAL MARQUISE:  A crystal clear globe with transparent, tinted inks and clear vinyl, this product is as unique and extraordinary as it is stunning.

WRITE-ON/WIPE-OFF:  A clear vinyl world globe that can be written on using dry erase markers then wiped off again and again, this features larger continent and country outlines with very limited place name detail.  This enhances learning in the classroom and home schooling.

Personalized gifts are memorable.  It’s really quite simple, Americans — young and old alike — love to see their names on a product because it makes them feel special and unique.  Therefore if you are looking for a gift, whether it is for a graduation, wedding, corporate gift, or anniversary that will make an impression and be lasting, give a personalized world globe as a gift.

We also give corporate awards, employee recognition, sports awards, achievement awards.  They should be special or unique as well.  We want to make the award memorable not just another award. Using an engraved world globe can do that for you. 

Do you need a new wedding centerpiece idea.  How about a world globe flower setting? 

Realtors do you want a new gift ideas for your clients.  You have spent some time with your customers getting to know them and their families.  What they like and dislike even as far as styles and designs.  Why not take that knowledge and do something with it, instead of shelving it and purchasing the home buyer a bottle of wine or flowers at the time of home closing.  With world globes you can pick styles, designs, colors that can work great in the new home environment.  Don’t forget that if your client has children then there is even greater motivation to purchase a world globe for the family. That is something that can be used and remembered for years to come will can benefit you even more.

The levitating/floating world globe ball is suspended in mid-air by an electronically controlled magnetic field.  It is amazing and with a very unique design.  The arm is also a neon light for support for the magnet on the top. The blue ocean world globe just levitates there to make a great conversation piece.  For the children’s room this particular levitating world globe can also be used for a night light.  Uses 110v AC adapter which is included.

The inflatable EarthBalls are a wonderful compliment to the standard globes found in every school classroom.  While a political globe enables students to locate countries and cities, only an EarthBall (or a trip to outer space) gives the true perspective of how our world actually appears.

Teachers and students of all ages love EarthBalls, and have discovered its usefulness in a wide  range of subjects, from the natural & Earth sciences including geography, meteorology, environmental science, to the social sciences of history, culture, exploration, current events, and many subjects involving global relationships.

EarthBalls are used daily for educating students from preschools to universities. As a tactile and visual classroom aid, EarthBalls enhance the teaching of both natural and social sciences.  Every EarthBall comes with the 16-page Global Handbook detailing games & activities, as well as resources for creative curriculum development.

This world globe stand is an authentic reproduction from a drawing found in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archives.  It is an unidentified concept for one of the Prairie Homes that Mr. Wright de-signed in the early 1900s. The only marking on the drawing is in his handwriting and says, “Something like this.” The proportions, and interpretation, of the drawing were calculated based on the scale of other drawings from this time period.

16″ diameter
39″ height
23″ Width
Hardwood base with dark walnut finish
Antique ocean color

Replogle World Globes adopted this design in 2008 for the Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection.

This world globe barrel stand is an adaptation of one of the most universally recognized furniture designs found in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archives. It is a modified version of the famous “Barrel Chair” originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903 and modified for his personal use at “Taliesin” in Spring Green, Wisconsin and for Herbert F. Johnson for his home “Wingspread” in Racine, Wisconsin in 1937.

Replogle World Globes adopted this design in 2008 for the Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection.

Have you ever wanted to actually see how Alaska experiences complete days in darkness or daylight? Have you ever wondered why the International Dateline has such significance in the business world? The National Geographic Planet Earth world globe can answer these questions and many more.

With the globe light off the globe shows the political map of the world. When the light is on,  it shows the physical features of the world - but that’s not all. This unique educational tool also shows day and nighttime for any time, date, and location in the world throughout the four seasons. It can be manually adjusted both forward and backward to see past, present, and future hours of daylight and darkness for easy demonstration and understanding. A pinpoint light shows the actual location of the sun throughout the year. Unique “twilight rings” depict the three zones of dawn and dusk. The superb design and engineering, combined with the expert cartography of National Geographic creates a learning tool that is fun and easy to use.

Information courtesy of National Geographic

The MOVA world globe rotates silently and is inspired by the earth itself. It is the world’s most advanced globe. It requires no power cords or batteries. . .only the natural light of your home or office.

The MOVA world globe rotates peacefully and silently using only the energy of room light and the force of the earth’s magnetic field. This is possible because the MOVA globe is actually an inner globe that rotates and is contained within an outer shell made of very clear acrylic that does not rotate. The thin space between the inner globe and outer shell is filled with a safe, perfectly clear fluid that buoyantly supports the inner globe completely out of contact with the outer shell. This inner globe, floating and turning in a virtually friction-free environment and energized by light, is analogous to the earth itself. The MOVA globe is being brought to market at a time when people everywhere will understand and appreciate this analogy.

The optical properties of the outer shell and fluid are carefully chosen so that the graphic features on the surface of the inner globe are magnified and appear to be on the outer surface of the outer shell. This means that the outer shell actually appears to move. The MOVA globe can rest on an attractive three fingered stand that is provided, or on just about any other kind of stand that can be chosen to complement it’s graphic design. The MOVA globe appears to rotate in spite of resting on the stand, in quiet defiance of commonly held ideas about the laws of friction.A carefully designed, and highly efficient drive mechanism within the inner globe drives the rotation even in room light. Energy for the drive is provided by very advanced solar cells within the inner globe, illuminated by light passing through the graphic on the globe. The drive includes a magnetic element that reacts with the earth’s magnetic field, much as a common compass does, to provide torque to drive the globe.

All of these elements of the MOVA globe cooperate to create a beautiful, magical object that provides a meditative point of focus to any room.