“Europe is a stupid idea for a continent,” says Jonn Elledge, author of A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps. “Its boundaries with Asia are mainly ...

Here you will find videos and activities about the seven continents ... world in more detail. This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map ...

The continent contains ... In the past, maps were hand-drawn by using careful measurements of the ground. Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved.

The extraordinary map not only allows us to understand what this underwater continent looks like. It also shows how it was ...