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Maps of the world are 'completely misleading' as true size of countries shown
The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...
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Ecuador, Indonesia, Uganda: Where can you visit the equator and is it worth a trip?
The part that really stayed with me is the ‘Ecuascope’ room - a floor-to-ceiling exhibit that aligns the equator to the stars, and exposes the arbitrariness of our world map. Despite the north ...
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What is latitude and longitude?
the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle (the South Pole) the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator. I’ve been asked to deliver this parcel to my cousin but he ...