After looking at a world map which had Mercator cylindrical projection (the type of maps where the lines of longitude are parallel with each other) in one of my early years in school, I thought that Greenland was more than twice the size as Australia because Greenland is at a high latitude and has been severely stretched out (Australia is actually about three and a half times the size of Greenland). It took me a long time to realise that on those kinds of maps, the distance between the lines of longitude decreases with latitude.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to think Greenland was called “Groenland”— Enrico
- i used to think that Australia was the whole world.— Trish
- Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!
- I used to believe that the maps for the United States and Texas were identical.— JTexas
- WHen I was a kid i used to believe you could dig to Australia— Chie