New Useful Things in the Real World!

[Balabanto]

This is so awesome that it just feeds every realistic game in the world. However, it also has a ton of champions and pulp hero applicability.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/25/lost-continent-discovered-beneath-indian-ocean/

 

I never thought I would thank Fox News. But this is really handy.

[Lawnmower Boy]

Re: New Useful Things in the Real World!

 

This is so awesome that it just feeds every realistic game in the world. However, it also has a ton of champions and pulp hero applicability.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/25/lost-continent-discovered-beneath-indian-ocean/

 

I never thought I would thank Fox News. But this is really handy.

 

Pikers. You want actual, submerged continents?

 

Zealandia (Shorter: New Zealand and New Caledonia are outlying surfaced remnants of a million-square mile submerged continent that was probably above water as recently as 23 million years ago. The linked Wikipedia article has a map.

 

Kerguelen Plateau (Shorter: a microcontinent "three times the size of Japan" extending from Heard Island in the deep southern Indian Ocean past Kerguelen Land (ditto) has been above water three times in the last 100 million years.

 

Sundaland (Shorter: as recently as the last Ice Age, the ocean bottom in island Southeast Asia was exposed, creating the now submerged continent of Sundaland, uniting western Indonesia with the Philippines, and linking New Guinea with Australia.)

 

Submerged microcontinents (Shorter: bathymetric surveys not linked to the botanical and other studies that have established the extent and approximate history of the above have established the existence of submerged microcontinents on the Jan Mayen Ridge northeast of Iceland; the Rockall Plateau west of Great Britain; extending through the South Orkneys and nearby sub-Antarctic island chains; in the east Tasman basin; in the Caribbean; eastern Indonesia; and, as noted, "Mauritia."