Geography question?

Michael Doolittle · 31 Aug 1999, 11:37 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Michael Doolittle" <mdoolittle at metlife.com>
Subject: (urth) Geography question?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:37:32
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Hello (delurking for a moment),

alga said:

>As to the geography question, since I disagree with just about everyone, I
>won't confront that except to say that yes, they are in the southern
>hemisphere (everyone will agree on that), but plate techtonics have been at
>work, and no, they are not in South America (everyone will not agree on
>that).

I tend to agree with you.  They are in the southern hemisphere, but discuss=
ion
of which continent they are on is meaningless without an idea of the time s=
cale.
Given sufficient time, ANY continent could be in the southern hemisphere.  =
Using
the names of animal species as evidence of locale is also meaningless, since
animals & birds have an annoying habit of migrating from one continent to
another (vis. horses, lions, opussums, the Galapagos islands, and humanity
itself).

(lurking again)

Mike

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