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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

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.

[–] pacmondo 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

It's referencing the pole swap.

[–] TheLorax 5 points 7 months ago

Since it's an archipelago underneath then most, if not all, of those islands would have a southern coast. The only way to not have a southern coast is to have the landmass directly on top of the pole, which could only happen for one island (if no ice is present)

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