In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job of showing countries' shapes and was excellent at showing ocean sailing courses, very important to ...

In many parts of the world land is moving down faster than the sea itself is going up', explained the lead author of the ...

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre ... to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called projections. Oh hello!

The digital bathymetric model of IBCSO Version 2 has a 500m x 500m resolution based on a polar stereographic projection (EPSG: 9354) for the area south of 50°S. I A new map of the seafloor of the ...