Noah Giansiracusa dispels a myth about the world's largest island. In Slate, he explains why a Mercator projection makes Greenland look far larger than it is, and why this matters. "While the choice ...
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Greenland Looks So Huge on Maps, Here’s the Distortion That’s Been Trickling Us All Along!
Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style. A recent study reveals how this distortion influences our perception ...
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