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During the most recent glacial maximum, it's believed that land bridges extended from the surfaces and connected several of the spheres together.

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[-] chtk@feddit.nl 19 points 2 months ago

I like how the globe for Australia keeps the trend of not including New Zealand going.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ha, I missed that! 😁

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

so did the cartographer

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I mean, NZ would be its own globe because it's a separate country.

But the Australia globe is potentially missing Tasmania.

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