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The Titanic gives up its forgotten treasures: Lost gold necklace made from the tooth of a megalodon shark is.It illustrates how countries in the northern hemisphere are much smaller than people typically think. However, its distortion was studied by Met Office climate data scientist Neil Kaye, who created a two dimensional representation of what the world really looks like. The biggest challenge with creating a world map is that it is impossible to portray the reality of the spherical globe on a flat surface - a problem that has haunted cartographers for centuries.Īs a result, shapes of world maps have typically been diverse, ranging from hearts to cones.īut the diversity gradually faded away with one model, invented by Gerardus Mercator, surpassing the others. In fact, it is 4.5 times bigger than Alaska.
It gives the right shapes of land masses, but at the cost of distorting their sizes in favour of the wealthy lands to the north.Ĭanada and Russia, for instance, appear to take up approximately 25 per cent of the Earth's surface on a world map, when in reality they occupy a mere 5 per cent.Īustralia also doesn't appear to be that much bigger than Alaska, even though it is the world's sixth-largest country. This phenomenon can be attributed to the Mercator projection, a map most commonly seen hanging in classrooms and in text books which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the world.
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