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That's not really accurate. Madagascar, for example, is about twice the size of Great Britain. That's without Ireland, but still...
by pvorb 5y ago
That's not really accurate. Madagascar, for example, is about twice the size of Great Britain. That's without Ireland, but still...
- cortesoft 5y agoHe mentions this in the article.
- tome 5y agoHe does but I can't understand his rationale. He claims it's "just a symbolic image - it may as well have been just blobs to tell the story" and "Had I stretched things to truly properly show that though, then the whole shape of Africa would have looked very awkwardly elongated." But why? One could scale the outlines so that they have the correct relative area whilst they preserve shape. I think it's just a poorly-designed map.