J.C. Flores
historic drystone sheep dykeAm i tripping or is it weird that all the major continents / subcontinents have a lil buddy island or archipelago to the southeast
This is blowing up and all i ask is that whichever planetary geologist gets a nobel prize for lil buddy research names the phenomenon after me
ranjit
Elsa Star Trewyn@hannah I wonder how that happened? That does seem a little crazy doesn't it...
Loren@hannah what else could Big Continent be hiding from us??
🌿Mouse-Friend🌿@hannah It's one of the first companion pets that can be unlocked via a quest as opposed to buying additional content, so most continents have one and many keep theirs even after unlocking other features.
The Embodiment of RED 
@hannah I dunno, I'm pretty desperate to hear a geologist talk about this now you've pointed it out
@thraeryn i wish i knew literally anything about plate tectonics
@hannah seriously
the general concept is easy-peasy, but the specifics? for all I know, I live on the Great Midwestern Tray
Mr. Completely@thraeryn @hannah the names of stuff in tectonics and geology are either incredibly boring and complicated or incredibly fucking cool with little in between. If you're in the Midwest you're on the North American Craton which to me is in the latter camp. The "stable cratons" are super thick continental cores. So there ya go
berndandeweg
Paul Koenig@hannah I was about to joke that Europe would disagree, but… the Ionian Islands.
@pdkoenig ah yeah i always forget people consider west eurasia its own thing. Crete and cyprus both kinda work too
@hannah I still have scars from working in an astronomy museum under renovation during the whole define planet and reclassify Pluto thing. My brain will happily think of continents and continental plates as unrelated subjects that sound alike.
Rufus J. Cooter
Squoonie 
@hannah
As someone living on one of those islands, I've been told our island used to connect to the main continent thousands of years ago, but slowly-rising sea levels over those years (and I'd imagine the shifting tectonic plates that places like New Zealand are close to) caused us to be cut us off from everyone else.
As someone living on one of those islands, I've been told our island used to connect to the main continent thousands of years ago, but slowly-rising sea levels over those years (and I'd imagine the shifting tectonic plates that places like New Zealand are close to) caused us to be cut us off from everyone else.
Steve's Place@hannah The continents slide across the planet and bump into each other along plate boundaries. Not a geologist, but you're not tripping. Australia moves northward. So does India. Parts of Baja get ripped off and slid up the coast over eons to wind up in places like Los Angeles. Geology is intriguing.
Skyler 
@hannah thanks, i am now tripping
Malcolm Westley@hannah
It’s the miracle of birth.
It’s the miracle of birth.
YAK@hannah my feelings are that it's abnormal, but it feels like a normal.ampunt of abnormal for something to be considering how everything is always a bit abnormal cuz That's Life, but comparing it to my mental image of an abnormal amount of abnormal formation (something forming in a skull kind of situation) this feels like, a good level of weird
@bees its the same amount of weird as that one moon of saturn having a seam on it
malevolent dictator for life
Kim Witten
pizzapal@hannah its cause of the coriolos affect?
Officially Tara 🕷️ 
🌹@hannah that's literally the opposite of weird - all the continents have them! 😂
Jectoons 
@hannah Banjo archipelagooie
Phil Garland@hannah every continent gets an island
r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖@hannah Like a snail leaving slime, continental drift often leaves residue
Zumbador@hannah does it align with the direction the earth rotates? I think so?
nathanlovestrees
Mike@hannah I look at this while I'm doing tai chi and wonder what happened there. And then the whole Bering Strait thing needs analysis.
It's Just Jenn 🏳️⚧️@hannah Woah. Something something fractals?
Claude GohierWe should ask Slartibartfast and his Magrathean buddies.
Sandra The Rat Queen 
@hannah I always thought it was just because of the way the continents shifted after breaking apart. They are technically underwater mountains.
Emily S@hannah there's also Antarctica, though the concept of south east of Antarctica doesn't really work.
GayPunkRock 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@hannah conspiracy: they broke off cuz they all formed in a northwesterly spiral
Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD@hannah I am a geologist and geophysicist, but I have not noticed that before. The tectonic processes that formed those “neighbors” are almost all different, so it seems like a coincidence that they are all on the southeast side. You also cut the continents in a way that removes other neighbors such as Papua New Guinea north of Australia and Aleutian Islands northwest of North America.
@EricFielding yeah i figured it was just a coincidence but it’s good to have confirmation from a phd! Do you know if anyone has ever wondered about this before? Ideally I want to have a phenomenon named after me
Nathan Wrigley 
@hannah Europe has Greece!
syn@hannah don't talk to me or my son ever again
veetee@hannah wonder if there's some tidal forces or rotational forces at play (or just a simple coincidence) bet there's a #planetaryscience person that would know
Holly A. Gultiano@hannah There's one near Kulaallit Nunaat/Greenland too (which is not a continent and a third as big as Australia)
edit: lol that's Iceland
Bryan Wright@hannah
What's southeast of Antarctica?
What's southeast of Antarctica?
external quantum efficiency@catselbow @hannah I feel like there should be a way to apply the same rotation on the sphere, using quaternions...
Annie
Andy Jones@hannah Iceland for Antarctica? Too easy, really, everywhere is south of it.
Tony Petrangelo@hannah what I like best is that Europe is not a major continent / subcontinent according to this framework
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@tonyangelo @hannah If it helps, Cyprus fits the pattern.
Renalia - #1 pizza downloader@Nine yes you get it
KevSaund@hannah I've never thought about it before now, and now I will think of nothing else.
jenifer daniels ♎ :verified:@hannah I play a wordle like game named globle and the stuff I've learned simply observation...
the islands in the hemispheres have similar shapes, vertical in the east, horizontal in the west