Nice catch. Must of had one too many Mike's Hard Lemonades. Usually I'm catching folks who think Brazil is small. ;-) Matthew On 29-Aug-04, at 9:35 AM, Gerard M Foley wrote: > <snip> >> It is one heck of a long way and very deceiving on a Mercator >> projection map. >> > Mercator's projection makes distances at high latitudes look much > greater > than they are. > > Gerry > http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ > http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html > http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley > http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html