American efforts to acquire Greenland date back to the 1860s, but the current momentum towards the project dates back to 2019 ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...

The Mercator Map Projection was developed by a Flemish cartographer named Gerardus Mercator in 1569 and it is one of the most well-known map projections. It was originally designed for navigation ...

One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have seen it loads of times and likely thought it looked perfectly normal. It was originally invented by ...

The Mercator projection also inflates the size of lands the further they are from the equator. Landmasses such as Greenland, Canada, Russia, and Antarctica get a bulge and appear far larger than ...

One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have seen it loads of times and likely thought it looked perfectly normal. It was originally invented by ...