• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    18 days ago

    Not even close. The American continents are approximately the same size as the Atlantic Ocean.

    The Pacific actually contains it’s own antipodal point: it is literally half the globe: a hemisphere.

    Or to put it another way. The Americas span approximately five time zones. That’s 75°, let’s be generous and say six to get a nice even 90°. That’s one quarter.