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PeterPan
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Cartography Mercator Projection
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How a 16th-century map reshaped navigation and modern digital maps
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Why did the Mercator projection become the standard for navigation despite its distortion of land sizes?

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Mercator projection revolutionized navigation by turning curved paths into straight lines on maps
25 Jan 2026
Why does the Mercator projection distort the size of landmasses near the poles?

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