World map .. five centuries of counterfeiting or geographic data ?!

Greenland .. large island in mostly frozen, located in the far North Atlantic between Europe and America, follow Denmark politically ..

While browsing the maps of the world, few of us gave a damn for this quiet island, but I assure you that very very few noticed that Greenland is equal to or higher than Australia in the area, and even manipulate the Africa and almost equally!

Of course, this does not seem logical. Indeed, when Rjoana to official figures, we find that the Greenland area less than one-third of Australia, and about 14 part of the part of Africa area.

Consider the map again !! Rest assured, there is no optical illusions, but we are going to "cosmic map wrong," as described by historian Arno Peters in 1974.

Geographical representation of our land "career" on flat maps as long as such elusive challenge for geographers over the centuries. Therefore, most of the maps in circulation today in books, magazines, sections of the walls of the school and even Uncle Google maps contain errors, omissions and some deliberately for reasons of technical and artistic.

And others dictated by ideological factors of control in the door, "how we see the world!" This hypothesis that look of "conspiracy theory" put forward derivatives "James Wan," the senior editor of the magazine Think Africa Press, which did not seem to Tsetseg dwarfing Africa geographically !!

 If we go back a few centuries back to investigate the origin of these maps, we find that the most famous attempts to "drop" the football world on a flat representation was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when it stood cruises to new worlds-whether for exploration or trade the peak, where there were many attempts projection taken forms of semi-circles and lozenges and hearts and other!