Our world is an amazing place. However, our view of it isn’t always terribly accurate. In fact, the maps that we use often work to reinforce our misconceptions. For example, the size of Europe is ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took 25 images in Gale Crater using its mast-mounted Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) to create this mosaic. The seam-corrected mosaic provides a 360-degree cylindrical ...

MAPS commonly used in schools rely heavily on a contorted version of the world from an earlier age in history. The map most widely adopted for educating youngsters was created by Gerardus Mercator, a ...

The Geographical Journal has been published since 1831, and was the Society's journal of report until the relaunch in 2000. It has the highest circulation of any British academic journal in its field ...

In school, I was, and still am, excellent in geography and history, but very poor in Arabic grammar and mathematics, and average in the other subjects. The world map has been my passion ever since I ...