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Most people don’t really realize just how far north Europe actually is. Many of Europe’s famous cities are popular tourist destinations. A lot of people in the United States assume that Europe is at a similar latitude or perhaps even south of the US, but in fact, many of Europe’s most famous cities are closer in latitude to major Canadian cities!

Why then, are average temperatures in Europe so much warmer than in Canada? It has to do with oceans and the Gulf Stream!

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Billions of dollars are spent each year on space exploration. ‘Space’ is an infinitely vast expanse, with equally vast budget requirements to explore. Meanwhile over 2/3 of our own planet is covered by the world‘s oceans whose depths remain to be thoroughly explored by humankind.

Could there be answers, resources or insights gained from completing the quest log of exploring our own planet before we venture too ‘far out’ into the cosmos?

Do we have a chance of ‘exploring’ these waters without destroying delicate ecosystems?

For nearly a thousand years, one tiny tool has quietly shaped human history.
Before GPS, before satellites, before smartphones, there was the compass.

It turned dangerous seas into trade routes, explorers into navigators, and the unknown into mapped reality.
Even now, when technology fails, it still works, no batteries, no signal, no problem.

Sometimes the simplest inventions are the ones that stand the test of time.

Like a cartographic game of ‘telephone’, errors on old maps continued on because everyone just copied one another. Errors like Mountains of Kong were present on maps for over 100 years. This isn’t even the longest run for mapping errors! Check out our other videos to learn more about maps, projections, and how they tie into our modern lives!

Every world map you've ever seen shows a flat Earth. That was a deliberate choice, and most people were never told it's actually a translation.

Maps aren't neutral. Every projection is an argument. And 500 years of flattening the Earth so well that people forgot it was a translation? This might be the biggest cartographic accident in history.