The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will eventually break apart altogether - with one US academic now theorising this could ...

You might think you know all the continents, but what about ... However, a team of geologists from all over the world have compiled a new geological map containing Zealandia.

The continent contains no countries ... Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps.

For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...