and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses.

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America, ...

He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents and ensure the most accurate map of the world.

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

New York The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way—"surrounded on all sides by the ocean," in the words of an accompanying book—and named the continent for ...