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| | Why, surely it would. Provided that, after moving Greenland into the tropics and filling in the Mediterranean, so much as a semblance of the original ecology would still remain to be messed up. | | Why, surely it would. Provided that, after moving Greenland into the tropics and filling in the Mediterranean, so much as a semblance of the original ecology would still remain to be messed up. |
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| − | The 'island kitchen' part of the explanation seems a bit of a big old stretch, given that there's no references to kitchens in the comic, and you can't 'put away' the islands in most kitchens - they're fixed installations.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.101|172.70.90.101]] 10:28, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
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| − | : Agree. I'mma take it out. [[User:Jkshapiro|Jkshapiro]] ([[User talk:Jkshapiro|talk]]) 01:44, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
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| | == Where is Hawaii? == | | == Where is Hawaii? == |
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| | Did someone put it away on mars? | | Did someone put it away on mars? |
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| − | :No. Antarctica is not shown on some maps, which is a rarity becoming less and less common. [[User:No Idea If There's A Character Limit LMAO|By me.]] ([[User talk:No Idea If There's A Character Limit LMAO|talk]]) 23:03, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
| + | No. Antarctica is not shown on some maps, which is a rarity becoming less and less common. [[User:No Idea If There's A Character Limit LMAO|By me.]] ([[User talk:No Idea If There's A Character Limit LMAO|talk]]) 23:03, 27 February 2023 (UTC) |
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| − | :Antarctica would (like the other continents, give or take the Scandiwegian peninsula's island-gripping distortion) not be considered 'movable' or storable elsewhere, otherwise we might restore South America to snugly fit against Africa (or vice-versa), or other neo-Gondwanaland movements. (You could, of course, have tried to fit actual non-arctic islands into the Weddel/Ross/etc openings in its edge, at least once you work out whether the seasonal/'permanent' ice should be respected or ignored for such purposes.) It is also bigger than Australia (its only true fellow 'island-continent') and even bigger than Europe (assuming you believe in Europe, as a mass, rather than prefering to deal Eurasia (or even Afro-Eurasia) as an effectively contiguous whole). We also rarely see Antarctica as anything other than a long strip, on equatorially-centred world maps, so finding a handy right-sized spot for something that looks somewhat more like the polar-centric map version, and at the right scale, would be an interesting but not necessarily aesthetically pleasing exercise. Would one rotation of other nicely nestle it in the bite of Africa, assuming S.America's bulge isn't now taking over that spot? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.207|172.71.178.207]] 00:49, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
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| − | :I presume that he was making a point of saying that all the ice would have melted, so little land at the south pole. Does anyone know of a land map of Antarctica? [[User:SDSpivey|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey|talk]]) 18:29, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
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| − | ::Do you mean the land (and sea) beneath the ice, or the way the land would be if the ice was to all be gone?
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| − | ::Either way, perhaps look at something like: https://polarjournal.ch/en/2022/07/13/what-greenland-and-antarctica-look-like-without-ice/
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| − | ::...there are other places with similar maps (maybe differently calculated), still showing plenty of land-area. If not more due to the proposed isostatic rebound outpa ing any change in sea-level. And most maps of Antarctica differentiate between the ice-sheets (sitting on bedrock) and ice-shelves (floating on water), though may not show where this is just where the sub-sealevel 'floor' is too shallow for there to be any undersheet seawater. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.57|172.70.85.57]] 21:27, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
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| − | Someone (rightly) changed the title-text (the comic having been changed) regarding the name of the Britirish Archepelego (( <= my term of the moment, that - if not pleasing everyone, annoying everyone equally! )), but of course this is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terminology_of_the_British_Isles/Archive_9 most complex and debated]] issue. Not sure who whspered into Randall's ear (or when), and not even sure it helps... But worth an extra note, definitely, if not any arguments that might yet spawn from it. ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.158|172.70.162.158]] 18:57, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
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