Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...
W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...
The popular Mercator mapping projection of the world was created in the 16th Century as a navigation aid. It may have worked well for sailors, but is an inappropriate education tool because it ...