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expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lemmyng@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Asia via the Pacific to the Americas, then a swallow grabs one and brings it to the Atlantic coast.

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  • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    African, or European?

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• IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They went around the horn like a real man!

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• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a current originating in Indian ocean flowing south of Africa to the gulf of Mexico, before proceeding north east between Iceland and Great Britain. It’s why Scandinavia is so much warmer than the same latitude in the Americas. I’m 55 north in Denmark, and have hardly seen snow this winter, meanwhile Edmonton in Canada is 2° south of that.

  Coconuts bobbing around the south of Africa is pretty wild, but not implausible.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D.

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    • Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Great article. It’s worth remembering that DNA is only evidence that someone banged, and I imagine there’s a fair amount of contact that goes on before that.

      A North American group from Colombia

      I hope this person just meant to say “Native American”, and doesn’t really think Colombia is in North America.

      (sorry, I’ve spent the last week proofreading articles…)

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      • match@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        North America of course being any part of the Americas in the Northern hemisphere –

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I assumed one finally got lucky and got around the southern tip of Africa while headed west.

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