The continents look entirely different than you think they do。 大陸板塊的形狀與你想象中的完全不同。 The map you're used to is more Western-focused and stretches out the size of continents near the poles. Africa and South America are actually way bigger. Here's a more accurate representation of the world, according to the The Gall-Peters Projection map, created in 1885. 你熟知的地球板塊形狀是以歐洲為中心的，而且夸大了靠近極地的板塊的面積。非洲和南美洲實際上比你想象中大得多。上圖是1885年、由專業(yè)板塊繪制機構(gòu)制作的蓋爾-皮特斯投影地圖，這張圖片更準確的展示了地球的板塊形狀。
