WORLD RECORD

EARTH Platinum, published by Australia’s Millennium House in 2012, is the world's largest atlas. Only 31 copies of the leather-bound atlas exist and each is priced at $100,000. Created with the help of more than 100 international cartographers, geographers and photographers, the atlas measures 1.8m × 1.4m and weighs 150 kilograms. Two people are required to turn each of the 228 pages of the atlas.

Previous to this publication the record for the world's largest atlas was held by the Klencke Atlas which can be found in the Antiquarian Mapping Division of the British Library in London. Published in 1660, the Klencke Atlas is reported to contain all geographical knowledge up to that time and includes 41 extremely rare copperplate wall maps.

Learn more:

Millennium House: millenniumhouse.com.au British Library: www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/theklencke-atlas

Time lapse of Klencke Atlas being digitised: bit.ly/2tZddQ1