Did You Know That It Ain’t Easy Being Greenland? (European Geosciences Union Blog Post)

This “It Ain’t Easy Being Greenland” map is something I made for fun during the #30DayMapChallenge (an international project to complete one map a day during the month of November) and highlights how different the island country appears depending on the map projection it is depicted with. Because Greenland is located near the north pole, it can be significantly more distorted by some map projections compared to places near the equator.

In this blog post, I delve into the weird and wacky world of map projections.