This is due to the Mercator Projection ... An even more extreme example would be Antarctica. Despite appearing enormous on a map due to its placement near the Poles, it is actually half the ...

So, Antarctica, Greenland and Russia, look far larger in the Mercator projection. Many of the maps we use today are still ...

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 ...