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A new bipolar map projection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2005

W.G. Rees
W.G. Rees
Affiliation:
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER
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Abstract

This paper discusses map projections suitable for representing the whole of the Earth's surface while drawing particular attention to the polar regions, and proposes a new projection. The projection is a latitudinally distorted variant of the transverse Mollweide projection, relative to which it roughly doubles the linear scale and trebles the areal coverage of the polar regions. It was adopted by the Scott Polar Research Institute in 2005.

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Information
Polar Record , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 215 - 222
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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