This is missing the island of southern Ontario made by the trent-severn waterway Image
Dubious Islands
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
TIL Florida was circumcised
dan69@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I knew it! It’s actually called MidEast not MidWest!
goatbeard@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Where’s the Colorado?
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Uh… is there a waterway that crosses the Rocky Mountains this way? That doesn’t seem right.
SkyeLight@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Explain xkcd #2838.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
none of these are true. that’s kind of the joke. it’s an oddly specific hydrology/geology joke
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
There’s a Half as Interesting video about this topic:
The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific