This is missing the island of southern Ontario made by the trent-severn waterway Image
Dubious Islands
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 months ago
The former Czech president lobbied for using our geographic position to link the Elbe, Odra and Donau rivers with canals. It would be very expensive but really useful in the 1800s.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
TIL Florida was circumcised
dan69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I knew it! It’s actually called MidEast not MidWest!
goatbeard@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Where’s the Colorado?
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Uh… is there a waterway that crosses the Rocky Mountains this way? That doesn’t seem right.
SkyeLight@piefed.social 2 months ago
Explain xkcd #2838.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Similar: Minnesota has a tri-point where water flows to the Atlantic (via Lake Superior), Gulf of Mexico (via Mississippi River) or up to the Hudson Bay (via the Boundary Waters)
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
none of these are true. that’s kind of the joke. it’s an oddly specific hydrology/geology joke
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I mean making shit up isn’t a joke though. I feel like the humor needs to be based on something real.
Most of the other “islands” are formed by man made canals, so I’m curious what the situation in the Rockies is that allows them to argue those rivers connect.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
There’s a Half as Interesting video about this topic:
The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific