Eckert VI projection

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Eckert VI projection of the world.

The Eckert VI projection is a pseudocylindrical map projection. The length of polar line is half that of the equator, and lines of longitude are sinusoids.^[1]

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References [edit]

^ John P., Snyder (1989). An Album of Map Projections (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1453). Denver: US Geological Survey. p. 50.

External links [edit]

Eckert VI projection at Mathworld

Mercator conformal	Gauss–Krüger transverse Mercator

Equal-area	Gall–Peters Lambert cylindrical equal-area Behrmann Smyth equal-surface Trystan Edwards Hobo–Dyer Balthasart

Cassini central cylindrical equirectangular Miller Gall stereographic Space-oblique Mercator

Pseudocylindrical

Azimuthal (Planar)

Pseudoazimuthal

Bonne	sinusoidal Werner

Bottomley	sinusoidal Werner

Cylindrical	Gall–Peters Lambert cylindrical equal-area Behrmann Smyth equal-surface Trystan Edwards Hobo–Dyer Balthasart

Tobler hyperelliptical	Mollweide Collignon

Albers conic Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Hammer Fisher's icosahedron Lambert azimuthal equal-area quadrilateralized spherical cube Snyder's equal-area polyhedral

Equidistant
in some aspect

gnomonic

Retroazimuthal
(Mecca or Qibla)

By Construction

Planar	Clarke twilight far-side perspective gnomonic orthographic stereographic

central cylindrical perspective conic

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