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The True Size of Antarctica

Following on our widely-discussed post earlier this week on the true size of Africa, we thought it’d be interesting to pass along this NASA-made comparison illustrating the true size of another oft-neglected continent: Antarctica.

(via Information is Beautiful; picture by NASA)

  • kinesis_14

    Actually, Antarctica is NOT bigger than it looks on most map projections. The Mercator projection makes extremities like Antarctica and Greenland absurdly large.

  • Robert Quigley

    my bad — fixed.


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