On 15/09/2015 17:42, Andrew Pettit wrote:
Hello
What fun!
Methinks that the confusion arises because the earth is not a “plane”
but a sphere. Mercator tried to project the sphere on to the plane and
had curved lines of latitude.
Another confusion is that there is more than one Halifax ;-)
Andrew
There was a news story a few years ago about a couple who booked a
holiday in the wrong Sydney :-)
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