Gerardus Mercator may have a lot to answer for. He was the cartographer who, in the 16th century, drew up a world map as an aid for navigators. On the Mercator map, which magnifies the polar regions and is still widely used today, Greenland looks bigger than the whole of South America and roughly the size of Africa. In reality, both continents are many times larger.
杰拉杜斯•墨卡托(Gerardus Mercator)或许在这件事上负有很大一部分责任。这位16世纪的制图师当年绘制了一幅帮助航海者导航的世界地图。墨卡托投影地图至今仍被广泛使用，但其缺陷是使极地地区看上去比实际面积大得多：格陵兰看起来比整个南美洲还要大，几乎与非洲相当。在现实中，南美洲和非洲的面积都比格陵兰大得多。
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