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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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Source: https://xkcd.com/3122/

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[–] 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.