1. A Photograph of the Earth from Space

2. How do we make a flat map of our round World?

3. Gerardus Mercator solved the problem

4. Take an Orange

5. Mark it like this

6. Cut along the lines

7. Cut one side open

8. Open up

9. Eat the fruit

10. Flatten out the peel

11. Here is the orange peel projection of the World

12. Some problems

13. the UK

14. and India

15. look about the same size

17. It folds up into an icosahedron

18. The sizes of the countries are much nearer to the correct ones

19. The sizes of the countries are much nearer to the correct ones

20. A soccer ball World

21. Australia
North America
Antarctica
Asia
Europe
South America
Africa

22. Fill in the names of the Continents on your own map