Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands ... I did not know about Devon, the world's largest uninhabited island-larger than Spitsbergen and Taiwan-or Hans Island ...

which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as ...

But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of flawed maps have led to a ...