Van der Grinten projection

American  

[van der grin-tuhn pruh-jek-shuhn] / ˈvæn dər ˌgrɪn tən prəˌdʒɛk ʃən /

noun

1. Cartography. a projection of the earth's surface onto a disc, with curved lines of latitude and longitude, and the poles represented by points. Relative area is greatly distorted near the poles, but less so than with the Mercator projection, and becomes more accurate as the distance from the poles increases.

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