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That is a distortion, I think. Look at the longitude and latitude lines in the sea.
by lysium 9y ago
That is a distortion, I think. Look at the longitude and latitude lines in the sea.
- ghaff 9y agoIt looks as if this map generally is designed to localize the inevitable shape distortions to areas where there isn't "interesting" detail and therefore those distortions aren't as obvious. But because of the way Brazil sticks out, it ended up getting stretched a fair bit.