xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres
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During the most recent glacial maximum, it’s believed that land bridges extended from the surfaces and connected several of the spheres together.
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I actually kind of like this as a concept for showing the world!
There really is an xkcd for everything.
Cartographers might try to tell you the continents on these maps are distorted - but it’s just their projection!
Cool except Europe is a sub-continent at best, not a continent.
My mom’s ass is a sub-continent.
It’s her most appealing feature!
If it were divided by continental tectonic plates, it would be welcome news for Southern Asia and most of the Middle East, but terrible news for New Zealand, Iceland, and the Caribbean.
The real problem is how slowly tectonic news travels.
What do you mean? New Zealand is the big winner in that classification, what with Zealandia being one of the biggest masses of sunken continental crust on Earth.
In terms of continental plates, as I understand it, Zealandia straddles the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates, so if this map were split by major continental plates, New Zealand’s north and south islands would be split.
But I’m not a geologist.
