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An Australian world map shouldn’t have Greenland appear larger than Australia (which in reality is about 3.5 times the size of Greenland).



It's Mercator you know. We're just used to the distortions the other way up. :-)


I'm surprised they didn't just cut the northern hemisphere off at a lower latitude.




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