Lately everyone’s mad at the #Mercator map for shrinking countries near the equator.
But the real victim? Antarctica. Every map screws it over.
It gets cut, distorted, no one knows the true look of it.
Time for an Antarctica-centric map. That's how penguins view the world
"In medieval times, a middle-class family in the Rhineland could purchase a modest home with just one year's wage; a carpenter’s house cost roughly 150 Gulden, which is approximately $50,000 in today’s terms—essentially one year’s income for a skilled worker."