It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...

In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job ... And it was reasonably good at depicting Europe. But it did that at the expense of places further ...