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  2. North Pole - Wikipedia

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    Gerardus Mercator's map of the North Pole from 1595 C.G. Zorgdragers map of the North Pole from 1720. As early as the 16th century, many prominent people correctly believed that the North Pole was in a sea, which in the 19th century was called the Polynya or Open Polar Sea. [7]

  3. File:Mercator north pole 1595.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Description: Mercator's 1595 map of the Arctic. Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. "Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio" [1595]. First state, from his posthumously published atlas, Atlantis pars altera.

  4. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Map is infinite in extent with outer hemisphere inflating severely, so it is often used as two hemispheres. Maps all small circles to circles, which is useful for planetary mapping to preserve the shapes of craters. c. 150 BC: Orthographic: Azimuthal Perspective Hipparchos* View from an infinite distance. 1740 Vertical perspective: Azimuthal ...

  5. Where is Santa right now? NORAD tracker maps his ... - AOL

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    NORAD updates its map in real time to show Santa's current location on his trip around the world. From his starting point at the North Pole, he headed south along the Pacific rim and then across ...

  6. Azimuthal equidistant projection - Wikipedia

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    An azimuthal equidistant projection about the North Pole extending all the way to the South Pole An azimuthal equidistant projection about the South Pole extending all the way to the North Pole Emblem of the United Nations containing a polar azimuthal equidistant projection. The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection.

  7. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    For example, a Mercator map printed in a book might have an equatorial width of 13.4 cm corresponding to a globe radius of 2.13 cm and an RF of approximately ⁠ 1 / 300M ⁠ (M is used as an abbreviation for 1,000,000 in writing an RF) whereas Mercator's original 1569 map has a width of 198 cm corresponding to a globe radius of 31.5 cm and an ...

  8. Polar regions of Earth - Wikipedia

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    Visualization of the ice and snow covering Earth's northern and southern polar regions Northern Hemisphere permafrost (permanently frozen ground) in purple. The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.

  9. NASA image of Earth reignites North Pole is hollow conspiracy

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    By: Troy Frisby/Patrick Jones, Buzz60 NASA's new pictures of Earth are reigniting conspiracy theories straight out of "Journey to the Center of the Earth."