It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...

Buy us!': Greenlanders shocked, intrigued, bewildered by Trump zeal for Arctic territory Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer.

As destination and dream, the North Pole has few peers, and of those whose dreams led them there, Erling Kagge has few peers ...

In 1569, Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator drew such a world map, using what has become known ... and per the Central Intelligence Agency, it has an arctic to subarctic climate with cool ...

Mercator projection maps stretch out the size of landmasses toward the poles ... allowed Greenlandic people more direct access to neighboring Inuit communities in Arctic Canada. A new Air Greenland ...

Harrison argued that on the traditional Mercator projection ... fast combat support ship USNS Arctic in 2015. Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images. Second image shows US geographer Richard Edes ...

This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, the US National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

The allied militaries did not specify where within the Arctic Circle the exercise took place, but the area is home to Russian ...