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[โ€“] redballooon@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

But even then it looks like Greenland is still larger than Australia. Is that true?

[โ€“] jonsnothere@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

The map is just the mercator projection, but it's showing a circle to show how distorted it is. If this was shown on a globe. The circle would look like a circle and greenland would look much smaller