• redballooon@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    But even then it looks like Greenland is still larger than Australia. Is that true?

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      11 months ago

      The map is just the mercator projection, but it’s showing a circle to show how distorted it is. If this was shown on a globe. The circle would look like a circle and greenland would look much smaller