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People have long been intrigued by figuring out the center of the places where we live. You’re probably familiar with the concept of center of population. Imagine placing an equal weight at the ...

Where is the geographic center of a state, country or a continent? It’s a question fraught with uncertainty. Do you include water in your calculation? What about islands? What happens when the ...

A globe on a two-dimensional screen seems pretty dull compared to map projections that look like armadillos, butterflies, or deconstructed polygons. The azimuthal orthographic (as it's formally known) ...

This field contains mathematical data associated with cartographic material, including a statement of scale, statement of projection and/or a statement of bounding coordinates. The coordinates can ...

THE Antarctic regions have been of official interest to Australia since 1933, when the Commonwealth Government announced its claim to a large sector of the continent south of the Indian Ocean between ...