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

Identifying the seven continents, five oceans, the Equator, the Northern and ... teachers could use a base map to explore the make up of the world and where the features explored in the video ...

The part that really stayed with me is the ‘Ecuascope’ room - a floor-to-ceiling exhibit that aligns the equator to the stars, and exposes the arbitrariness of our world map. Despite the north ...