A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...

Because the world is a sphere, it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world ... The world has seven continents and five oceans. Europe is a continent.

There is a ravishing kind of beauty in Tommaso Santambrogio's lyrical triptych of contemporary Cuban life, "Oceans Are the ...

Filmed with marvelous attention to subtle contrasts possible in its monochromatic palette, the frames brim with a built-in ...

Tommaso Santambrogio’s film, which stakes out territory in both truth and fantasy, uses nonactors to tell intertwining ...

“Oceans Are the Real Continents” — whose very title nudges audiences to reimagine how it is we understand the geography of the world around us — is guided by a similar type of conviction.