earth {globe}

Major Coastline of Earth

Description

Coordinates of the coastline of continents and major islands on Earth.

Usage

data("earth")

Format

A list with two components: coords is a two-column matrix containing (longitude, latitude) coordinates of the coastline, in degrees; runlen is an integer vector giving the number of vertices for each connected polygon in the coastline.

Source

The maps package.

Examples

data(earth)
globeearth(earth$coords, earth$runlen)