• veroxii@aussie.zone
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      7 months ago

      For now. It used to a few million years ago and will again in another few million.

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        7 months ago

        Are you referring to the magnetic pole switch? That happens every 200-1M years, according to patterns on the seafloor. It’s been estimated that the last reversal was 780,000 years ago, so it theoretically could be any day now.

        With that being said, I doubt that humanity will agree to turn all maps 180° to correspond.

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          7 months ago

          I thought they were referring to the fact that under the ice its an archipelago, so if the ice melts it will have southern coasts again

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            7 months ago

            If it melts, they’d all be northern coasts.

            It’s referencing the pole swap.