The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

but at the cost of misshapen continents and bent meridians. Areas near both the equator and prime meridian are accurate, but the distortion gets worse the further you go from either. This attempt at ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map ... along the equator and at the ...

The first, the Mercator projection map, shows everything where it should be, but it makes landmasses further from the equator ... continents. As such, it didn’t provide an accurate view of the ...

so the publishers frequently crop off the continent and then re-center the map ... resulting in the equator being 2/3 the way down the map." All this adds up to a view of the world that sets one ...

On a typical world map ... distorts the relative size of the continents, to the advantage of the West. On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on the equator, reasonably undistorted – is ...

These currents have trouble crossing the equator, but they can. The answer for why they usually don’t involves a concept that’s relatively new in the science world. It’s a principle ... against ...