Education is important.

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FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 204 pts · 253d (3 replies)

The Lesser Atlantic Garbage patch

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 126 pts · 253d (1 reply)

No England is up there

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 252d

That's the Great Atlantic Garbage patch

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 253d

angry Mermaid noises

einlander@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 253d (2 replies)

NoFoundland

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 253d

SeriouslyRegretFindingland

essell@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 253d

The inhabitants call it Forohfore

gray@lemmy.ml · 67 pts · 253d (9 replies)

Atlanta, Georgia

finley@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 253d (2 replies)

Atlantis, Georgia

Come on, it was right there

Zikeji@programming.dev · 13 pts · 253d (1 reply)

I was wondering why it was extra cold today. Makes sense now, thanks!

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 253d

That looks closer to the equator than Georgia.

sundray@lemmus.org · 12 pts · 253d (1 reply)

_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 4 pts · 253d

...The Magician?

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 2 pts · 253d (1 reply)

The lost city?

gray@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 252d

It is right there

b_tr3e@feddit.org · 60 pts · 253d (1 reply)

Easy. It's Atlantis. Not only Americans would fail here, also ancient Greeks because they located Atlantis somewhere in the Aegean sea where an undersea quake sunk a couple of islands. Claiming Atlantis was lost and can't be found, of course, is cheap. It takes the illuminated mind of a trained alchemist to see the truth behind the blindwork of the temple knights and the dark forces of the Vatican.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 253d

Americans might do better on average at Ancient Greek geography than Ancient Greeks would at American geography, but it’d be close.

FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works · 56 pts · 253d (6 replies)

Lemuria? It's gotta be Lemuria, right?

xkbx@startrek.website · 20 pts · 253d

oh shit thats good i was thinking gregsland

snooggums@piefed.world · 17 pts · 253d (1 reply)

Atlantis!

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 253d

That city has been lost forever!

ogeist@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 253d

Ha! You must be American

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 252d (1 reply)

isnt that in the pacific.

FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 252d

Oceans are a lie propagated by Big Boat. It is all one big bottomless puddle.

prime_number_314159@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 253d (1 reply)

That's the Medditerain't, right there.

123@programming.dev · 9 pts · 253d

From the Latin roots medi: middle terra: earth ain't: nah bruh

Its in the middle of that earth thingy, and ain't, clear as night.

this@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 253d (2 replies)

Its the 1% here that scares me.

FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 253d (1 reply)

Yea the 1% scare me too

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 253d

I also scared

doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 34 pts · 253d (2 replies)

The land of Atlantis has been found!

halvar@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 253d

Atlantis? Hammol is literally on every map and the dumb Americans think it's fucking Atlantis.

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 252d

Didn't think it would be so far from Greece, and so large.

early_riser@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Duh that's Atlantis, obviously.

bilb@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 252d

Might be Frisland though, I dunno

Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 27 pts · 252d (3 replies)

Atlantis!

Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 252d (2 replies)

No, it's just the Azores, also known as Númenor.

early_riser@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Does that make the Americas Valinor?

aow@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 252d

Yep, the Undying Lands over here.

DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 252d (1 reply)

is that the floating trash island we formed from dumping plastic into the oceon

vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 252d

No, you're talking about UK

craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 252d (7 replies)

Okay but what is that country really? It's obviously not real, but where is the shape from? Is it just made up, is it another country (I wouldn't know which one) or is it the shape of some fictional place?

baronofclubs@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 252d (3 replies)

It looks like Antarctica to me, but I'm too lazy to check.

craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 252d (2 replies)

I thought so too, but Antarctica has that big arm which isn't present here

baronofclubs@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 252d (1 reply)

When you're right you're right, and I think you're right.

Routhinator@startrek.website · 1 pts · 252d

For a moment I pondered if that's what Antartica looks like now that so much of the ice shelf has melted.

rumba@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 252d

ot real, but where is the shape from? Is it just ma

Each side (except maybe not the bottom) has small disconnected 'islands' so it wouldn't be land-locked.

That split on the north east looks like a rather deep river. Makes me think volcanic. But most of the recent volcanic islands don't have smaller islands like that around them. Puts me more in the mind of something around the Philippines. It could be something from a high resolution map showing more islands.

I rotated and flipped it every which way, fed it back through tineye and google images, nada. I guess is that it was a collection of islands merged together, or a fictional art piece.

fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 252d (1 reply)

::: spoiler Tap for explaining the joke It doesn't exist. The joke is that some people might not know that. :::

Landless2029@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d

Yeah

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler My first thought was "there's no island there right?" :::

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 252d (3 replies)

It's the Euro-wan aka: 欧湾

Mainland Europe has always claimed it as the inseperable(不可分割)part of the European Union, meanwhile, the ruling government of Euro-wan, the Union of Europe, insists its a separate independent country. Some residents of Euro-wan are trying to rename the country into Republic of Euro-wan

If you ask me, is it a country?

Sorry I don't want to hurt the feelings of the 400 Million+ Mainland Europeans. No comment.

froh42@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 252d (2 replies)

As a European - does anyone think we give any fucks when a recalcitrant Island exits the Union?

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Canary Islands?

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 252d

Must never be allowed to leave, Estonia would be devastated

Gork@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 253d

Greater Portugal

bonn2@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 253d (3 replies)

Clearly Spain 2

glnpf148@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 253d

2 Spain 2 Furious

Spain Tokyo Madrift

kubica@fedia.io · 7 pts · 253d

Spaout

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d

Sp2in

expatriado@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 253d

don't overfeed your canaries guys

Hjalamanger@feddit.nu · 21 pts · 253d (4 replies)

My Swedish brain instantly thought that that is obviously Iceland

UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 253d (3 replies)

Don't worry, it's pretty common to confuse it with Southern Iceland

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 253d (2 replies)

Meltland

ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world · 2 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Sunland

Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d

Wetland

Avicenna@programming.dev · 20 pts · 253d (2 replies)

That would be R'lyeh

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 253d

Cthulhu lies beneath, not dead but dreaming.

rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 252d

About fucking time, take us Cthulhu you bastard.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 252d

Ah yes, Pirezia...

Context: In Hungary, a group of people started to interview people of the street about their geography knowledge, and it involved the fictional country, "Pirezia". It also became a meme.

madjo@feddit.nl · 17 pts · 252d (5 replies)

Is that that floating plastic island?

justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 252d (4 replies)

I think that was in the Pacific

Burninator05@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Where is it written that we can only have one floating plastic island?

justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 251d

In the text I responded to which talked about "THAT plastic island"...

wieson@feddit.org · 5 pts · 252d

It's floated over here now. It's not called the fixed island after all.

madjo@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 252d

It has been a bit windy...

turnipjs@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 253d (1 reply)

James

Professorozone@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 252d (7 replies)

So 1% CAN name it?

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 21 pts · 252d (4 replies)

I'm naming it Bob. 😤

early_riser@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 252d (2 replies)

You've seen Titan A.E. I gather.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 252d (1 reply)

As well as everything else Don Bluth did. 😃

early_riser@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 252d

Ah yes, Don Bluth, the man that introduced 90s kids to the concept of mortality. Poor Littlefoot's mom :( The Secret of NIMH was a favorite of mine. The book it's based on is pretty weird.

Professorozone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d

We'll it IS kind of bobbing around out there.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d

I can give it a shot

laranis@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 252d

Fear the 1%.

Rooty@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 252d (1 reply)

A new island? The Dutch must be stopped at all cost.

FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 252d

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 253d (2 replies)

The approximate location where we should drop all the billionaires without floaties.

BurnedDonutHole@ani.social · 5 pts · 253d

Floaties?! Who do you think we are? I'm not paying for the floaties nor the transportation.

oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 253d

Yesssssd

harmbugler@piefed.social · 17 pts · 253d

Thriceland

reptar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Ahh, sweet Qwghlm

egerlach@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 252d

Alas that I have but one upvote to give.

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 253d

"it's mine now" - england

Sabin10@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 253d

I suspect the number would be a little lower. Do not underestimate how many confidently incorrect idiots there are out there.

EditsHisComments@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 253d

When the fuck did France float into the Atlantic?

makyo@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 253d

Gigatenerife

joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 253d

It's probably not Listenbourg.

TalkingFlower@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 253d

I am a native; it's a very multicultural island, but I have never seen an American coming here.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 253d (1 reply)

That's North Canary Island. It's not on many maps because it formed recently from a submerged volcano. Maybe you remember hearing about that a few years ago?

vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 252d

I heard it died after we dug a little too deep

LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 253d (1 reply)

It's Hy-Brasil, it turns out it's a lot further south than people think

Wren@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 253d

But I wanted to tell everyone about irish-atlantis and its magic rabbits.

ashar@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 252d

That's Atlantis, but it seems to have grown recently

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 253d (2 replies)

You can practice by playing worldle

worldle.teuteuf.fr/

TheOneCurly@feddit.online · 10 pts · 253d (1 reply)

For this.... are you sure...?

tyler@programming.dev · 8 pts · 253d

Won’t know unless you practice!

istdaslol@feddit.org · 9 pts · 253d

New West Wales

wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 253d (1 reply)

The principality of Sealand keeps annexing new land mass formations popping out of the Atlantic!

crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 4 pts · 253d

excellent. my lordship there will prove valuable someday. hehe

overkrill@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 253d

its name is jeff

Benign@fedia.io · 8 pts · 253d

Canary ilands, after a few vulcanic erruptions.

TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 253d (1 reply)

It's the Earth Kingdom.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 252d

how did things change after the fire nation attacked

waspentalive@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 253d

It's not on Google Maps, unless it is the area claimed by the Azores. The Azores is an archipelago that is actually part of Portugal.

RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 252d

Only 1% know about it it must be the Epstein Island

DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 253d

Atlantis?

protist@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 253d (5 replies)

That island would probably have amazing weather

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 253d (3 replies)

Ehhhh, not in fall. Hurricanes sometimes curl up that way, along with a bunch of Saharan dust.

Sabata11792@ani.social · 10 pts · 253d

Still sounds amazing, just not pleasant.

protist@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 253d (1 reply)

Both Saharan dust and the overwhelming majority of tropical waves would pass well south of this island, imo

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d

I mean, some of both curve up to Spain.

They usually peter out before then, but this is placed before they fizzle out.

Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d

It would probably be subtropical, at least on the coast, just like in the Azores.

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 253d (2 replies)

This is literally the described position of atlantis by plato. Should be much bigger though

b_tr3e@feddit.org · 4 pts · 253d (1 reply)

That's what the Platonians want you to believe. Fools! Blind, dumb followers of the Athenian sophistry! Socrates was innocent!

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 253d

GET OUT OF YOUR CAVE

Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 252d

It's the landmass Lex Luthor created in Superman Returns isn't it? Can't remember the name though

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 7 pts · 253d

Trick question, it's not a country. That's the island in Lost, and one of the locations it pops up.

TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 252d

Azores after thanksgiving

SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 252d

Country McCountryface

Lightfire228@pawb.social · 6 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Null island?

early_riser@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 252d

No too far to the northwest. 0,0 is somewhere near the Gulf of Guinea.

ruipaulo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 252d

I think it is called James

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 252d

Bob

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 253d (1 reply)

TIL that French Guiana is in the EU

And that Norway isn't XD

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 253d
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Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au · 6 pts · 253d (1 reply)

ok who's the 1% that does know then? This isn't a real place, right?
RIGHT!?!?!

Worx@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 253d

Found the American

AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 253d

Its Europe! Lol checkmate

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 253d (1 reply)

Yeah, but how many Europeans know the capital of Lemuria?

wieson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 252d

Julientown

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 252d

the azores continent.

WereCat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 253d

eastern spain

ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 5 pts · 253d

Looks like greenland

acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 252d

I dub thee Steve!

nailed it!

Renat@szmer.info · 4 pts · 252d

Crimea Island

baggins@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 253d

That is clearly France

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 252d

Gilberto.

JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 253d (1 reply)

The lesser-known Cape Roja, just north of cape Verde

CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d

cool, now we just need to find Cape Azul

azha@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 252d

That's N/A Country duh

Samsy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Reminds me of a philosophical question, what would happen if a new country with zero humans on it appears in our actual timeline? Who would own it?

early_riser@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 252d

This is a common worldbuilding scenario I play with, a virgin continent appears suddenly, usually in the South Pacific.

AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 253d

I guess the azores islands technically no?

Finalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 252d

Goncharovia

Inucune@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 253d

Wrong place to be null island.

mrsilkworm@piefed.social · 3 pts · 252d

Midgard maybe?

parzival@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 252d

James? what about it? 

film@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 253d

Oil

kamen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d

Yeah, but hamburgers are importanter.

Chee_Koala@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d

It's Caymans 2: Inflation Edition

altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 253d

I'm going to name it McKarrotland.

MML@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 252d (1 reply)

Derek

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d

The un-united kingdom

Therobohour@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d

It's obviously Hy-Brasil, look it up

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 252d

I think it's called Pain or something.

EDIT: Never mind, it's Greenland.

Aneb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d

I'll give it a go, Cuba?

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d

Dutchland

Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 253d

Brain rot intensifys

Amercias 51st state

/S

LemUser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d

Jolly old Saint Cruz?