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Why do you think Antarctica is the most distorted continent on every one of these map projections? *​

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The map is thereby conformal. As a side effect, the Mercator projection inflates the size of objects away from the equator. ... As a result, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equator, such as Central Africa.

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