It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...

The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of countries and continents. For example, when compared to a globe, the island of Greenland at the top of the ...

The map problem is that in reverse - to get the middle of the globe to fit smoothly ... today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world ...