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.
Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres
egrets@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIf 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.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
egrets@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
GhostPain@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The real problem is how slowly tectonic news travels.