The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to encourage alternatives to the centuries-old Mercator projection, which ...

It makes Africa bigger while shrinking North America and Europe. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

Scientists studying the lost continent of Zealandia have produced a series of detailed maps that show the continent sitting beneath the ocean surface. Zealandia is a huge underwater landmass beneath ...

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The UN’s vote to promote more accurate map projections is symbolically important—but it will not return land, build ...

After decades of work, a team of scientists has finally completed a map of Zealandia. It's helping them unlock the secrets of this lost continent's mysterious past. Zealandia is sometimes called Earth ...

Under New Zealand, there lies a vast continent on the sea floor. Once part of the same land mass as Antarctica and Australia, the lost continent of Zealandia broke off 85 million years ago and ...

SCIENTISTS are mapping the mysterious “lost” continent of Zealandia for the first time. The gigantic landmass in the South Pacific disappeared beneath the waves 23million years ago – and has never ...