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Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

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Visit Mars as it might have looked billions of years ago. Not frozen and dry, but wet, warm, and alive with flowing water.

A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made, ...

Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, glacial soils ...

In fact, what is now Victoria was once within the polar circle, up to 80 degrees south of the equator and shrouded in darkness for ... The transition from a world without flowers to one with flowers ...

Most of Africa is north of the equator, though on many mental ... even though it appears to be much smaller on Mercator maps. Thinking about the world in two-dimensions also distorts our ideas ...

poorer nations near the equator. Of course Peters had a suggestion on how to fix this problem—his own map. The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion.

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don ... but it makes landmasses further from the equator appear larger than they actually are. The Gall-Peters projection map addressed ...

An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries ... This creates an issue called the “Greenland problem” where landmasses further from the equator like Greenland, appear ...