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

Maps of the world come in many shapes and sizes. Navigational and road maps help you get from place to place; topographical and physical maps give you a look at terrain; and thematic maps track all ...

The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of countries and continents. For example, when compared to a globe, the island of Greenland at the top of the ...

New research suggests Earth may have six continents, not seven, with North America and Europe still connected.

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...

For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

The desire to see wonders of the world and meet ... seeing all seven continents wasn’t an accomplishment she planned. She realized her feat after putting together a wall map so she could share ...