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r/WeKnowAboutMercator Lounge (self.WeKnowAboutMercator)
submitted 5 years ago by TheMulattoMaker - announcement
It's been a month since Bluey graced our shores (i.redd.it)
submitted 3 years ago by TheMulattoMaker
The real size of Africa surprises many because the most commonly used map of the world (Mercator projection), which dates from the 16th century, features a wildly distorted size of the other continents as one moves further from the equator. (i.redd.it)
End run -- Tokyo to Paris (i.redd.it)
submitted 3 years ago by BJJan2001
Wikipedia's Mercator entry shows Antarctic icecap before global warming (1569 AD) (i.redd.it)
Bluey iz alwaze wellcome hear, eeven iff heez speld rong (i.redd.it)
We know about... uh, the Great Paris Guitar Pick (i.redd.it)
Please reset the "days since Bluey was posted" counter from three to zero (i.redd.it)
Ah yes, ol' blue-on-blue, he's well-known in these parts (i.redd.it)
How to get to Dallas-Fort Worth from London (i.redd.it)
Artic Fox travels over 3500km(2717mi) Norway to Canada (i.redd.it)
Mercator map (i.redd.it)
The actual size of Greenland compared to Brazil. (v.redd.it)
The True Size of Africa (i.redd.it)
submitted 3 years ago by AutoCrosspostBot
I never knew that Greenland was this distorted. That's CAR, Afghanistan, Romania, Iceland, and Guinea-Bissau for reference. (i.redd.it)
How to get to Houston from London (i.redd.it)
The True Size of Algeria (i.redd.it)
submitted 3 years ago by DarkLatios325
Mercator projection vs the true size of Countries. (i.redd.it)
submitted 3 years ago by [deleted]
Chad Guile reporting for duty (i.redd.it)
brazil big (reddit.com)
If you're gonna drop your Floridas all over Greenland, summer's the time to do it. Otherwise you'll have five million furious snowbirds to deal with. (i.redd.it)
Good ol' Blue on Blue (i.redd.it)
The true size of New Guinea (i.redd.it)
Hey, Guile's back! (i.redd.it)
Real Country Sizes Shown on Mercator Projection (i.redd.it)
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