An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers ... the size of the landmasses but distorts the shapes of the continents. It seemed like we were doomed to forever have to choose ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...

If you are looking at a traditional world map, you won't get an accurate idea of the size of the seven continents; depicting a sphere onto a flat surface means that something will end up distorted.

Because the world is a sphere, it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world ... The world has seven continents and five oceans. Europe is a continent.