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

The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

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 ...

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.

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. The Equal Earth World Map builds ...

Now there's a new map to guide your way ... most complete and accurate map ever made of the frozen continent at the bottom of the world (see example, below). "Up until now, we've had a better ...

“Anything big enough to change the map of the world is important ... the two land masses as separate continents? Or are they still one? Then there is New Zealand, which really wrecks things ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself ...

It was in this bubbling cauldron of magmatic activity that geologic forces created the world’s first continents ... the first subduction zones? In a new paper published last week in the journal ...