This map, published by German cartographer August Heinrich Petermann in 1865, depicts the world using a conceptualised polar projection...
Polar Projection Maps
Extension of Arctic Ocean sea ice (1980–2020)
This map, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, shows the retreat of Arctic sea ice between its minimum extent...
A Divided World (1941)
This map, published by Richard Edes Harrison for Fortune magazine in 1941, shows the world divided in the midst of the Second...
Map of the North Pole, by Gerardus Mercator (1595)
This map was created by Gerardus Mercator to compensate for the shortcomings of his projection in covering the polar regions. Mercator...
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