“They’ve overcharged our ships, overcharged our Navy ... in 1508 and was first named “Golfo Mexicano” on a 1569 Mercator map. Both the United States and Mexico have five states that ...

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Trump’s unsolicited offer to buy Greenland from Denmark — which first colonized the island in the 18 th Century and still ...

The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of ...

But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps. The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map projection since the 18th century— is the name for the phenomenon in ...

20mn sq km landmass & drill baby drill approach to exploiting vast natural resources People’s view of the world is largely conditioned by Mercator maps. They are named after a Flemish ...

Useful, often colorful, and sometimes a bit confusing, maps can also be distorted. Mercator maps, for example, flatten the round globe into a two-dimensional projection that significantly alters ...

Several undersea cables running under the surface of the Baltic Sea have been damaged in suspected sabotage incidents in ...

This is because modern world maps commonly use a template called the Mercator projection, devised by European cartographer Geert de Kremer in 1569. The projection has been criticised for ...

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