According to that new article, this new world map is not only the most accurate ever created, but it actually showcases the proper size of the landmasses and continents that make up our planet.

“Europe is a stupid idea for a continent,” says Jonn Elledge, author of A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps. “Its boundaries with Asia are mainly ...

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.

It shows all seven continents, Europe ... so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years. They used to be hand-drawn to scale ...

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 ...

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.

Delphine Shannon, 93, of Altoona counts herself among the less than 1% of the population who has traveled to the seven ...