The British Antarctic Survey has revealed a new map showing what Antarctica looks like under the several thousands of meters ...

mile (43,820,000 km 2). Asia is also the biggest continent from demographical point of view as it holds world's 60% of the total population, accounting approximately 3,879,000,000 persons. Asian ...

If you've seen a world map or travelled to Australia then you'll know just how far away it is from other continents - but ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

It shows all seven continents, Europe ... so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years. They used to be hand-drawn to scale ...

Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

The continent contains no countries ... Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps.

The 1602 Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (Chinese world map) pictured here features a huge southern continent – at that point unexplored. Kevin Schafer/Alamy For the majority of the past 100 million years, ...