The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a 16th century rendering that preserved lines .If you have ever seen a map of the world in a classroom or in an atlas, chances are you have seen the work of Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century Flemish cartographer (mapmaker). Areas designated deserts have an average. Covering a combined total of about one-fifth to one-third of the land surface of the Earth, deserts are landscapes or regions that receive little precipitation, with a relatively high level of evaporation, creating a deficit. Fate of more than 100 Israeli hostages consumes, unifies a terrorized nation.Description : The world desert map shows the major deserts around the world.
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