Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

The "hidden" continent is now being partially mapped thanks ... The project aims to produce a publicly available bathymetric map to measure the depth of the world's ocean floor depth by 2030.

This was the first ever sighting of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the ...

The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a 16th century rendering that preserved lines used for navigation while hideously distorting the true ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists studying the lost continent of Zealandia have produced a series of detailed ...

Languages; English. Antarctica has become the best-mapped continent on Earth with a new high-resolution terrain map showing the ice-covered landmass in unprecedented detail. The Reference ...

If this holds true, the conventional definition of what counts as a continent might need a rewrite. The map of Earth, long thought settled, could be far more dynamic than once imagined.