Helena Burke
speaker
669 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Helena Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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More than four hundred and fifty years on, Makeda's map is still the basis for many of the maps we see in classrooms, documentaries, and online, including Google Maps.
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For years, African campaigners have been pushing for the Makata map to be replaced with the more accurate equal earth projection.
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Mokee Makura has been leading the charge.
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But does size really matter?
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Donald Trump certainly seems to think so.
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There's been some speculation that Greenland's gargantuan appearance on traditional maps may have partly informed the US president's desire to take over the territory.
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Now, years of campaigning for a more accurate representation of the world's countries has paid off.
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The UN General Assembly has passed the correct the map resolution with the support of one hundred and sixty four nations.
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The United States was the only country to vote against it, and there were six abstentions.
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The resolution calls for the gradual phasing out of the use of the traditional Makeda map.
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The change at the UN was spearheaded by Togo's Foreign Minister, Robert Dussey.
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The equal earth projection is widely regarded as the most accurate display of the relative sizes of the world's land masses.
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But it's not perfect.
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The map still distorts some shapes, angles and distances, as Professor Cheshire explains.
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The correct the map resolution is non binding, which means countries aren't required to implement it.
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However, the UN's decision will still spur changes to the maps used by institutions around the world.
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Well, don't
in fact... In fact, there are profitable tools in the field.
It was a question of your own or a friend's project.
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