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What a good illustration on how massive and empty the Pacific Ocean actually is.
The ancients knew the earth was a pyramid…
I see this more as like the opening bit in a Star wars movie
No matter how you flip it, Florida is still getting hit by a hurricane
Are Americas closer to Antarctica than Australia?
Why don’t they go there from South America instead of New Zealand?
Antarctica is divided up into a whole bunch of wedge-shaped territories managed by different countries (plus an international treaty where everyone agreed to only use it for scientific purposes), and most research stations are near the coast. The Chilean, Argentinian, and British areas are in that area near South America. For the rest, starting in South America would mean you’d have to cross a big chunk or even all of Antarctica to get where you want to be
They go to Antarctica from Chile all the time.
Argentina/Chili claim ownership, why visit your own country?
I’ve only ever heard of people going to Antarctica from the south of Chile (though I guess it depends where in Antarctica you’re trying to get to)
Fuck you greenland. Not so projectionally big now!
the reverse of the U.N. logo
That’s actually really cool. They’re finding some crazy shit down there too. Not that I believe in anything crazy, but if there was a civilization there before us, it would be amazingly preserved.
As it should be
based (on the south)
It’s time to play World! Of! Fortune!
Its like ghe spirals at the front of aircraft engines
AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA
Antarctica and South America all like
The Drake Passage seems like a really difficult place to exist
It’s not like the other passages
This map explains why there can be a 24-hour sun in Antarctica and why direct flights between the US and Europe pass over South America.
Checkmate, Globers!
On a similar vein, this is why I like the Dymaxion map so much; it shows more clearly how the landmasses are connected and better illustrates how early people migrated and settled where they did.
Fun fact: New Zealand is actually part of Antarctica that broke off
You could say the same for Australia along with every other continent.
The Pacific Ocean is really big.
This always made me wonder, and I might be a stupid question, but I know Pangea was this one huge mass at one point. Was there nothing on the other side of the world except water? Why did all the land form on one side of the globe?
Correct. Nothing but water. Pangea wasn’t the only supercontinent in Eath’s history, just the latest.
Huh. Makes sense, I guess. I wonder if the continents just switch sides every however often and they’re just in the process of migrating together again but on the opposite side this time 🤔 I should go to bed lol
That is indeed pretty much what happens.
The entire mantle is constantly moving and essentially “floating” on our dense Liquid Metal core
Land masses drifting on a globe, crash together, bouncing off, drifting apart, rinse repeat on the other side.
Flat! I knew it!
On a serious note, New Zealand is actually included this time. Well done.
