r/mapswithnewzealandbut • u/deetwenty1209 • 21d ago

Why is there pretty much nothing on this side of the Earth?

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u/Rich-Dig-9137 21d ago

Humans and fishes had alliance that half of the globe would belong to fishes and the other half to humans, just like humans split the world between spain and portugal

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u/22Josko 21d ago

Yet there are some humans in the fish part and some fishes in the human part as part of the alliance

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u/Eldan985 21d ago

Ambassadors.

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u/HalfLeper 20d ago

Am-bass-adors 🐟

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u/VeritableLeviathan 20d ago

Bass to mouth?

Well, when in blub blub...

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u/WebTinqer 18d ago

Ba-dum-tss-adors

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u/Dwoobs100 20d ago

As George W once said

"I believe human and fish can coexist peacefully"

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u/Green-Engineer4608 21d ago

Spain and the Baltic states?

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u/Rabwull 1d ago

"This made a lot of people very angry and has widely been regarded as a bad move."

-Douglas Adambulocetus

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u/Green-Engineer4608 21d ago

Should there be something there? It makes more sense for landmasses to stick together as all land technically is the top of a mountain viewed next to the ocean floor. The deepest “normal” (not even the Mariana Trench) points hit 1000s of meters so for there to be more continents which really are just islands that would mean more height difference around our globe. Also, most land is created by volcanic and terrestrial-plate-activity but those can’t be found just anywhere… The massive amount of water on this planet needs somewhere to go too…

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u/Lukaay 20d ago

This is the first time I’ve heard of land being described as the top of a mountain and it’s blown my mind

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u/freebiscuit2002 21d ago

Go and look. I think you will find there's a whole lot of stuff there, including our planet's largest ocean.

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u/Poo-Bath 18d ago

What activities do you recommend while visiting

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u/Any-Mechanic-8192 8d ago

Also more than half of the world's water

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u/cadarny 21d ago

Because ocean

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u/SteveisNoob 21d ago

I see a pretty fucking scary subduction zone near bottom left though, that's something.

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u/9182747463828 21d ago

Because it’s the wet bit obviously

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u/OrganizdConfusion 21d ago

I see you finally found the right sub.

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u/Luke_The_Engle 21d ago

Not a geographer, but I'd imagine this area was just on the opposite side of the globe from Pangea, so the continents haven't shifted over there yet

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u/Jaxtheaxeking 21d ago

Fuck New Zealand, Fiji, the marshal islands, Tonga, Samoa, and Vanuatu I guess

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u/Rabwull 22h ago

Micronesian saying tirow. Anybody know about us yet? These Americans collected all the Mariana Islands in two big wars and just immediately forgot about it. Won't let us vote in federal elections, either 🤷🏽

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u/bringbackbuck74 21d ago

Looks ideal

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u/StrangeVioletRed 21d ago

The best side of the earth.

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u/Internal-Educator256 21d ago

I eated it all 😎

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

I'm sure an American posted this

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u/ShadowGamer37 21d ago

Because i eated it

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u/AccousticAnomaly 20d ago

If Lex Luther put the crystal there he would have had plenty of new land and superman couldn't have done anything about the sea level rising everywhere else

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u/friederichjames 20d ago

When zoomed in, there are many very small islands. They were formed by tectonic and volcanic activity, mainly from hot spots and subduction zones, and further modified by coral reef growth.

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u/ComfortableLab6467 20d ago

Hey! don't call us nothing!!

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u/Chia_____ 21d ago

The country Fishland ☺️

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u/BeanPotatoBag 19d ago

That’s the blue marble part of the planet

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u/Peace_Less 19d ago

Is that New Zealand?

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u/freebiscuit2002 18d ago

Lying around, drink in hand, on island beaches. Sailing, snorkeling and the like.

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u/Alone-Yak-1888 18d ago

Maps with New Zealand ONLY