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xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres
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xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres
Title text:
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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Cool except Europe is a sub-continent at best, not a continent.
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.