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finleyreply
lemmy.zip

Atlantis, Georgia

Come on, it was right there

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Zikejireply
programming.dev

I was wondering why it was extra cold today. Makes sense now, thanks!

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feddit.org

Easy. It's Atlantis. Not only Americans would fail here, also ancient Greeks because they located Atlantis somewhere in the Aegean sea where an undersea quake sunk a couple of islands. Claiming Atlantis was lost and can't be found, of course, is cheap. It takes the illuminated mind of a trained alchemist to see the truth behind the blindwork of the temple knights and the dark forces of the Vatican.

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Americans might do better on average at Ancient Greek geography than Ancient Greeks would at American geography, but it’d be close.

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From the Latin roots medi: middle terra: earth ain't: nah bruh

Its in the middle of that earth thingy, and ain't, clear as night.

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Atlantis? Hammol is literally on every map and the dumb Americans think it's fucking Atlantis.

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lemmy.zip

Okay but what is that country really? It's obviously not real, but where is the shape from? Is it just made up, is it another country (I wouldn't know which one) or is it the shape of some fictional place?

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lemmy.zip

I thought so too, but Antarctica has that big arm which isn't present here

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For a moment I pondered if that's what Antartica looks like now that so much of the ice shelf has melted.

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ot real, but where is the shape from? Is it just ma

Each side (except maybe not the bottom) has small disconnected 'islands' so it wouldn't be land-locked.

That split on the north east looks like a rather deep river. Makes me think volcanic. But most of the recent volcanic islands don't have smaller islands like that around them. Puts me more in the mind of something around the Philippines. It could be something from a high resolution map showing more islands.

I rotated and flipped it every which way, fed it back through tineye and google images, nada. I guess is that it was a collection of islands merged together, or a fictional art piece.

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fnrirreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

::: spoiler Tap for explaining the joke It doesn't exist. The joke is that some people might not know that. :::

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Yeah

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler My first thought was "there's no island there right?" :::

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It's the Euro-wan aka: 欧湾

Mainland Europe has always claimed it as the inseperable(不可分割)part of the European Union, meanwhile, the ruling government of Euro-wan, the Union of Europe, insists its a separate independent country. Some residents of Euro-wan are trying to rename the country into Republic of Euro-wan

If you ask me, is it a country?

Sorry I don't want to hurt the feelings of the 400 Million+ Mainland Europeans. No comment.

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froh42reply
lemmy.world

As a European - does anyone think we give any fucks when a recalcitrant Island exits the Union?

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Must never be allowed to leave, Estonia would be devastated

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feddit.nu

My Swedish brain instantly thought that that is obviously Iceland

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About fucking time, take us Cthulhu you bastard.

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Ah yes, Pirezia...

Context: In Hungary, a group of people started to interview people of the street about their geography knowledge, and it involved the fictional country, "Pirezia". It also became a meme.

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lemmy.world

A new island? The Dutch must be stopped at all cost.

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Floaties?! Who do you think we are? I'm not paying for the floaties nor the transportation.

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feddit.nl

Is that that floating plastic island?

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lemmy.world

Where is it written that we can only have one floating plastic island?

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It's floated over here now. It's not called the fixed island after all.

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Ah yes, Don Bluth, the man that introduced 90s kids to the concept of mortality. Poor Littlefoot's mom :( The Secret of NIMH was a favorite of mine. The book it's based on is pretty weird.

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I suspect the number would be a little lower. Do not underestimate how many confidently incorrect idiots there are out there.

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But I wanted to tell everyone about irish-atlantis and its magic rabbits.

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I am a native; it's a very multicultural island, but I have never seen an American coming here.

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That's North Canary Island. It's not on many maps because it formed recently from a submerged volcano. Maybe you remember hearing about that a few years ago?

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The principality of Sealand keeps annexing new land mass formations popping out of the Atlantic!

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It's not on Google Maps, unless it is the area claimed by the Azores. The Azores is an archipelago that is actually part of Portugal.

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Trick question, it's not a country. That's the island in Lost, and one of the locations it pops up.

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lemmy.world

Ehhhh, not in fall. Hurricanes sometimes curl up that way, along with a bunch of Saharan dust.

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protistreply
mander.xyz

Both Saharan dust and the overwhelming majority of tropical waves would pass well south of this island, imo

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I mean, some of both curve up to Spain.

They usually peter out before then, but this is placed before they fizzle out.

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It would probably be subtropical, at least on the coast, just like in the Azores.

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This is literally the described position of atlantis by plato. Should be much bigger though

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B-TR3Ereply
feddit.org

That's what the Platonians want you to believe. Fools! Blind, dumb followers of the Athenian sophistry! Socrates was innocent!

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quokk.au

ok who's the 1% that does know then? This isn't a real place, right?
RIGHT!?!?!

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lemmy.ml

Reminds me of a philosophical question, what would happen if a new country with zero humans on it appears in our actual timeline? Who would own it?

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This is a common worldbuilding scenario I play with, a virgin continent appears suddenly, usually in the South Pacific.

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