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 ...

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

Greenland is the world’s largest island, but it’s not as big the Mercator map would have us believe ... With an ice sheet second only to Antarctica’s in size, Greenland’s glacial land ...

In total, 145 countries from seven continents — including Antarctica — have featured ... the result of a distortion in the so-called Mercator projection — the most widely used version of the ...

For one, Greenland looks big—almost the size of Africa on a Mercator projection of the world map—and in Trump’s eyes ... increasingly confrontational geo-political landscape. Unlike Antarctica, the ...

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

SYDNEY, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Australian researchers have created a new detailed map of Antarctica's ice-free land that they say will help protect the continent's biodiversity. The team, led by ...

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 ...

"Possible face in Antarctica". What's more, it offers the coordinates of the place where it is located. And it gives it with such precision: 72°00'36.0"S 168°34'40.0"E. Face on Mars (1976 ...

Scientists have successfully extracted what is likely the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2 million years, from deep within Antarctica. Working in extreme conditions of -35 degree C, the team ...