If your Flat Earth map is correct then why is North America smaller then South America? The difference is quite a bit too. Same with Australia. In reality North America is bigger then South America and Australia is smaller then you show it on a map. And before you start saying Round Earth maps on a flat surface are wrong, just consider that it is almost impossible to put a sphere's surface on a flat map.
It's not "almost" impossible to put a sphere onto a flat map without distortion...it's is actually, mathematically, totally impossible.
The FE maps *must* disagree with RE globes in one or both of the following ways:
- The compass headings between places in the world must disagree between RE and FE.
- Distances in RE and FE must disagree.
So the distortions in the FE map in the Wiki are not there in *all* FE maps - some work harder to keep the size discrepancies down to a minimum on land - at the price of making compass headings worse (so the shapes of familiar continents seem more distorted) - others try to eliminate angular errors, at the cost of increasing size discrepancies. Most do a compromise - and by pushing the biggest size discrepancies into the ocean areas, try to make it harder for people to criticise their maps.
But no matter what they do - there WILL be situations where a well-documented real-world distance or heading will be different in the FE map - and then there are grounds for criticism.
The usual RE question is: How come the Australian state airline "Qantas" can offer their non-stop Sydney to Santiago, Chile route, (Quantas flight 27)? On an RE map that is a 7000 miles. 12 hour flight. This is within the capabilities of the 747-400 flight.
However, on the FE map - the shortest route is more than twice as long - far *FAR* beyond the range of the 747-400 - and requiring it to fly faster than Concorde to make the trip in 12 hours.
That's not a fluke - Quantas also fly the Johannesberg, South Africa, to Perth, Australia route - taking 9 hours - which also would require Mach 2 flight speeds and a fuel supply hugely larger than a 747-400 can possibly carry.
The only semi-plausible answers I've heard from the FE world say that the Jet Stream carries the plane along much faster and with far less fuel consumption...but handily fails to explain how the aircraft manages the return trip - same distance - fighting the Jet Stream every inch of the way.
Usually the debate collapses under a wealth of misunderstandings about "great circle routes" and how Quantas flight 27 would have to overfly China and a bunch of other places when passengers do not see anything but water beneath them for the entire journey...this of course is debated ferociously...carefully side-stepping the time and fuel matters.