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xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres (infosec.pub)
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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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[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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.