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 The more familiar Mercator projection distorts the distance between points near the poles, making northern areas look larger than they are relative to areas around the Equator.
-This projection, a modified version of a projection created by Walter Behrmann in 1910, distorts areas near the Equator and the poles, but preserves distances at about 33 degrees north and south latitude (Snyder and Voxland 1989, 19–20).
+This projection, a modified version of a projection created by Walter Behrmann in 1910, distorts the shapes near the Equator and the poles, but preserves shapes at about 33 degrees north and south latitude, so that every area is the same size as it is on a globe (Snyder and Voxland 1989, 19–20).
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