I added these two pictures because in regular flat maps Antarctica looks way bigger than any other continent. As you can see here it truly is not that big. In fact Antarctica (top) is quite a bit smaller than even South America (bottom), and in a flat map Antarctica looks easily five times bigger than South America. I thought this was interesting because as a kid in elementary school I had always thought Antartica was easily the biggest continent on earth but I was definately wrong!
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