A_1337_Canadian OP t1_j4w8pmq wrote
Reply to comment by disneyvacafacts in TIL that only about 4% of the Earth's surface has two points on opposite sides of the world that are both on land by A_1337_Canadian
I believe the Pacific is as high as 42% or something like that. It's massive! Go look on a globe and stare right at the middle; the whole hemisphere is pretty much ocean!
Makes it more bonkers to think about how old sailors could navigate to the tiny Hawaiian islands right in the middle of nowhere.
disneyvacafacts t1_j4wgwnh wrote
Earth's surface area is 196.6 million square miles and the Pacific is 60 million square miles, that's how I was calculating the 30.5%
A_1337_Canadian OP t1_j4whprp wrote
I a number!
Knull_Gorr t1_j4wl7bp wrote
Those old time seaman used sextons.
Smittywerbenjagerman t1_j4x0lmp wrote
Actually, for the Polynesian islands they didn't have sextants. But they got by just fine. Wikipedia has a whole page on it.
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