He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents and ensure the most accurate map of the world.

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses.

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.

Cartographers have unveiled a new map of the world which shows the size of the continents more accurately. The new projection is called Equal Earth and is designed to represent the relative sizes ...