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500 YearsTRUTHER   JULY 30, 2013   3

We Have Been Misled By An Erroneous Map Of 

The World For 500 Years.

This clip was featured in “The West Wing,” but map

dishonesty is anything but fictional. Check out the

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The map shows how Africa (30,3 million km²) is larger than the combination of China (9,6 million km²), the US (9,4

million km²), Western Europe (4,9 million km²), India (3,2 million km²) and Argentina (2,8 million km²), threeScandinavian countries and the British Isles (map gives no surface for these last two areas). Map Source

The Peters Projection World Map is one of the most stimulating, and controversial, images of the world. When this

map was first introduced by historian and cartographer Dr. Arno Peters at a Press Conference in Germany in 1974 it

generated a firestorm of debate. The first English-version of the map was published in 1983, and it continues to have

passionate fans as well as staunch detractors.

 

The earth is round. The challenge of any world map is to represent a round earth on a flat surface. There are literally

housands of map projections. Each has certain strengths and corresponding weaknesses. Choosing among them is

an exercise in values clarification: you have to decide what’s important to you. That is generally determined by the

way you intend to use the map. The Peters Projection is an area accurate map.

Because the only totally correct representation of the earth is a globe, cartographers have to distort the sphere in

order to print it on flat paper to produce world maps. In the process scale, distance, area, or a combination of these,

are rendered imperfect.

Traditional world maps such as the Mercator often exaggerate the scale towards the poles, giving an erroneous

picture of the relative sizes of different countries. For example, Mercator maps show Greenland to be roughly the

same size as Africa, when, in reality, Africa is actually fourteen times larger. Africa also looks considerably smaller 

han Russia on a Mercator map, even though Africa is actually 33% larger. However, generations of navigators

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weren’t bothered much by Mercator’s misrepresentations, since they cared most about longitude and latitude, which

he Mercator projection handles rather well.

In 1973, Arno Peters published the Peters Projection map. This map preserves equal area and retains a

rectangular grid of latitude and longitude. Thus all countries are the correct size in relation to one another.

On this projection it becomes much easier to understand the relationships between countries. However, a

price is paid in the distortion of shape – countries are progressively squashed towards the poles and

stretched across the equator. For those who grew up with the Mercator map, the Peters projection map

appears to be stretched vertically, and Africa suddenly looks huge.

 A variety of social and religious groups argue that since the Mercator map makes many countries appear 

smaller than they really are, people seeing them may infer that certain countries are innately more

important than others. This rhetoric has often escalated to the point where the Mercator map is openly

described as being “racist”. Many of these groups are working to address this perceived problem by

lobbying schools around the world to adopt the Peters projection map in classrooms. This movement is not

without controversy, however, since educators, well-aware of the Mercator map’s deficiencies, were already

adopting maps based on other projections, some of which are even more accurate than Peters’s. Others

argue that Peters wasn’t even the first person to devise such a projection, since James Gall came up with

he same idea in 1855 (which is why some refer to it as the Gall-Peters projection).

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