{"id":195637,"date":"2024-09-03T22:57:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/how-the-next-supercontinent-will-form"},"modified":"2024-09-03T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:57:17","slug":"how-the-next-supercontinent-will-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/how-the-next-supercontinent-will-form","title":{"rendered":"How the next \u2018supercontinent\u2019 will form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-next-supercontinent-will-form2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2022 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b id=\"it-might-seem-that-the-world's-landmasses-are-fixed,-but-as-richard-fisher-discovers,-there-are-major-changes-coming.\" class=\"\">It might seem that the world\u2019s landmasses are fixed, but as Richard Fisher discovers, there are major changes coming.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 500 years ago, the Flemish cartographer Geradus Mercator produced one of the world\u2019s most important maps.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly wasn\u2019t the first attempt at a world atlas, and it was not particularly accurate either: Australia is absent, and the Americas are only roughly drawn. Since then, cartographers have produced ever-more precise versions of this continental arrangement, correcting for Mercator\u2019s errors, as well the biases between hemispheres and latitudes created by his projection. But Mercator\u2019s map, along with others produced by his 16th-Century contemporaries, revealed a truly global picture of Earth\u2019s landmasses \u2013 a perspective that has persisted in people\u2019s minds ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2022 face_with_colon_three It might seem that the world\u2019s landmasses are fixed, but as Richard Fisher discovers, there are major changes coming. Nearly 500 years ago, the Flemish cartographer Geradus Mercator produced one of the world\u2019s most important maps. It certainly wasn\u2019t the first attempt at a world atlas, and it was not particularly accurate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}