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Keywords: Flemish, Barquentine, Adrien, Ostend, Gerlache

Related Terms: Azimuth, Declination, Departure, East, Easting, Equator, Equidistant, Hemisphere, Latitude, Longitude, Magnetic Declination, Magnetic North, Meridian, Meridional, Northing, West, Right Ascension, Graticule, Greenwich Meridian, Hour Angle, Utm, Parallels, Mercator Projection, State Plane Coordinate System, Prime Meridian, Celestial Equator, Aspect, Prime Vertical, Principal Meridian, International Date Line, Meridians, Compass Rose, Grid North, True North, Universal Transverse Mercator, Location, Geographic Coordinates, Geodetic Coordinates, Cardinal Points, Absolute Location, Central Meridian, South Pole, Parallel Of Latitude, Celestial Coordinates, Cardinal Direction, Angular Distance, South Celestial Pole, Hour Circle, Geographic Coordinate System

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merchant. Example. See also Freedom of the City

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Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)

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a spherical projection or map

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Mercator is a map projection

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The barquentine Mercator lies at anchor in Ostend, Belgium. She was named after Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594), Flemish cartographer. She was designed by the Antarctic explorer Adrien de Gerlache (1866-1934) as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet.

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