The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map projection since the 18th ... distorted the further they get from the equator. Antarctica and Greenland are often thought to be bigger ...

Antarctica is a special case ... to show all or part of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of ...