This is due to the Mercator Projection ... An even more extreme example would be Antarctica. Despite appearing enormous on a map due to its placement near the Poles, it is actually half the ...

Antarctica is a special case ... to show all or part of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of ...

The Mercator projection also inflates the size of lands the further they are from the equator. Landmasses such as Greenland, Canada, Russia, and Antarctica get a bulge and appear far larger than ...