ALC Press Educational Publishing since 1978 Alaska Attu Shemya Kiska Amchitka Adak Atka Nikolski Dutch Harbor Cold Bay Anchorage ArafuraSea Torres Strait Gulf ofCarp-enteria Astoria AUSTRALIA BandaSea Beiping Bering Sea BeringStrait BismarckSea Borneo CANADA Caroline Islands SuluSea CelebesSea CHINA CoralSea Darwin EastChinaSea FIJI Formosa FrenchPolynesia Guam Gulf ofAlaska Hainan Hawaii HongKong INDIA IwoJima JAPAN Java Java Sea JohnstonAtoll Juneau Kamchatka Kiribati Kodiak KomandorskiIslands KOREA MANCHURIA Manila MarshallIslands Midway MONGOLIA Nauru NewCaledonia NewHebrides Nome Okinawa Palau PAPUA Paramashiro Petropavlovsk PHILIPPEANS PhilippineSea PortMoresby Sakhalin Samoa SanDiego Sea ofJapan Sea ofOkhotsk Seattle Shanghai Shumshu SolomonIslands SolomonSea SouthChinaSea Gulf ofTonkin Formosa Strait St George St Lawrence St Paul Saipan TasmanSea Timor Sea Tinian Truk Tokyo USA USSR Vietnam Vladivostok WakeIsland YellowSea Yukon IndianOcean North Pacific Ocean South Pacific Ocean Kuriles French Frigate Shoals Equator Commonwealth Dutch France Japan United States 500 miles

This map shows place names that were current in 1940. It highlights (in color) the colonial interests.

Notes

  1. The Aleutian Islands consists of all the islands starting with Attu in the west to Unimak (a little west of Cold Bay) in the east. The islands of St Paul, St George, and St Lawrence are not part of the Aleutian Islands—they are Bering Sea Islands.
  2. Anytime Earth's spherical surface is shown on a two-dimensional map like this one, distortion results. The distortion in this modified-Mercator projection map is quite noticeable in the northern latitudes but the extra space allows labeling of the numerous Aleutian Islands.
  3. The distortion means that the distance scale (500 miles) is not accurate across the entire map.
  4. In 1940, the northern third of Sakhalin Island was controlled by the Soviets. This map shows Japan controlling all of the island only because of how the map's country outlines were drawn.
  5. The red circular area representing Manchuria does not line up with the actual borders of Manchuria only because of how the map's country outlines were drawn.
  6. The New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) were administered by France and Britain.

References

Wikipedia: South Seas Mandate