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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Maybe I'm not understanding. Isn't Australia an island, so wouldn't it show as some kind of "lake" like new Zealand is?

[–] Dampyr@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I was confused as well and I found this coloured version and this version with sea connections (green for Panama and Suez canal) that helped me to understand!

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Thank you.

Still kinda a weird how they have it laid out. Granted I'm no cartographer, I don't know the struggles of projecting a sphere on a plane.

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The Continental divides split the continents in half as there's no water that goes fully over them. That's awesome!

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

oh yes now i get it

[–] Johandea@feddit.nu 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every continent is an island

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Europe and Asia claim otherwise.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's because they're only fake continents who don't realize they're just parts of Afro-eurasia.

Hell, Europe is just a peninsula with delusions of grandeur.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Here’s a better projection. I don’- know what went wrong with OP’s…

[–] Maddox@feddit.ch 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is there a reason fish would orient the map that way?

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We asked but they declined to comment so we can only guess.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Africa isn’t properly isolated, either. I guess that’s a side-effect of trying to make the land surround the sea.

[–] onion@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I don't think you could see the Suez Canal at that scale

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago