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Antarctica is not a sovereign nation, nor is there any vertiginous population, no commerce and too little knowledge about this grand continent that occupies 10% of the earth's surface.

You can find both polar regions in map books, however, sequestered together usually. And you can find Antarctica on a world globe.

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Because of the map projection used. When longitude lines are equally spaced, locations farther north or south appear larger, because the distance between meridians actually becomes much smaller as you near the poles.

A map is flat and the earth is round. To represent the round earth on a flat map means that you have to distort part of it - this is called a projection. There are many varieties of projection that can be used to make a map, each of which involves a different sort of distortion.

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Because Antarctica contains the South Pole. The map direction north is defined as toward the North Pole and the direction south as toward the South Pole. The compass would be different at various locations around the map. East could be represented as clockwise from any point to the next, and counterclockwise as west, but points on the opposite sides of Antarctica would be simultaneously due east, due west, and due south of each other, depending only on the direction you intended to travel. And at the South Pole, you cannot go south.

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Antarctica changes sizes alot so its easier to just leave it off also its not land its ice

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Nobody really lives there, so for most maps it's considered ok to leave it off unless it has relevance to to purpose of the map.

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