Peters pointed out that the Mercator map has a distortion in the northern hemisphere, making North American and Eurasian countries appear much larger than they actually are. For example ...

Co-ordinates are also available as Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and 3-degree Transverse ... create a single TIFF image showing the whole Fort McMurray index map. There may be some distortion in ...

But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of flawed maps have led to a ...

Buy us!': Greenlanders shocked, intrigued, bewildered by Trump zeal for Arctic territory Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer.