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🇦🇶 Antartica (or Greenland) Mercator Projection 🗺️ (startrek.website)

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

This is a useful reference https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_true_proportioned_continents_approximation_with_comparison.jpg

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[–] Paradox42@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

https://thetruesize.com/ is also fun.

Just use the search to add Antarctica and another region (like say Australia, or North America), then drag them to the equator to compare their sizes.

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