Art Deco Floor Globe may need restoring on map Overall One of the Finest Floor Globes Produced in the First Half of the 20th Century Four-legged wooden stand, 39 inches high; globe 18 inches diameter. European colonial dominance in many areas, which would soon begin to greatly diminish. Much of Africa on the globe is named and delimited according to areas claimed by various European powers. India is prominently called “British India.” The globe also reflects the unresolved political nature of the Antarctic at the time. Delineated on it are claims, some of them overlapping, to various Antarctic areas made by Australia, New Zealand (the Ross Dependency), the Falkland Islands, and the United States, called the Byrd-Ellsworth Sector. An area called “Shakleton Shelf Ice” is also noted. Numerous steamship routes, shown in red and identified, can be seen particularly in the vicinity of Australia and throughout southern Asia.