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.

T he Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion ...

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good ...