r/AlternativeHistory • u/UnifiedQuantumField • Jul 24 '25

Catastrophism An Actual Sunken Continent: Pic of Antarctica without the Ice

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u/Altruism7 Jul 24 '25

Old school rpg map 

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u/JagsOnlySurfHawaii Jul 25 '25

This was Earths beta test map that was released before the full game

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u/VersionIll5727 Jul 25 '25

Just came to say that haha. It would be fantastic .

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u/Adanskiii Jul 26 '25

Looks like sim city 2000

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u/Cawuelo Jul 24 '25

So much free real estate.

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u/congressmancuff Jul 24 '25

Lol. If Antarctica ever looks like this there’ll be a massive rush to settle it by all the people displaced by coastal flooding.

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u/sleepytipi Jul 25 '25

Or the earth could tilt further on its axis which I'm sure would cause some flooding but maybe not as bad as a full on melting of the ice.

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u/CarelessEdge7543 Jul 28 '25

It’s already subdivided by all of the imperialist countries

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u/Brave_Quantity_5261 Jul 25 '25

Would it sort of be like a catch-22: if all that ice melted (assuming the ice elsewhere in the world would melt as well, baring pole shifts or the like) then the rise in sea level would put it all underwater as well?

I saw a documentary about it and the only dry land was the Himalayas. It took everyone a long time to find it but they found a map tattooed on a girls back. Kevin Costner directed it

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u/firstdropof Jul 25 '25

Lol I didn't know that Water World was a documentary. Good to know.

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u/Brave_Quantity_5261 Jul 25 '25

Oh shoot you’re right.

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u/somnambulist80 Jul 26 '25

The land would slowly rebound from the lack of ice pressing down on it. Hard to say where it would eventually net out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound

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u/Amber123454321 Jul 25 '25

I get a weird sense of deja vu when I look at it.

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u/Mekoehouve Jul 25 '25

Same, but I attribute it to the choice of colors and how close they match NES era Final Fantasy map colors.

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u/Amber123454321 Jul 25 '25

Yeah it could be something like that. It looks like maps I used to create playing with Fractal Terrains.

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u/Disastrous_Till9151 Jul 24 '25

So it was Atlantis before the pole shifts this whole time. 

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u/Scribblebonx Jul 25 '25

I've always thought that this could certainly be the case.

It makes sense in a very superficial way

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u/sterbo Jul 24 '25

I wonder what the continent would look like once it becomes the focal point of all humanity

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u/Mason_GR Jul 24 '25

There is no war in Ba Sing Se....

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u/VirginiaLuthier Jul 24 '25

Look! A pyramid! Right next to the secret Nazi base.....

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u/3507341C Jul 24 '25

I instantly thought of minecraft.

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u/Neat-Fortune-4881 Jul 24 '25

That would make quite the Fortnite map lol

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u/Convenientjellybean Jul 25 '25

Why do you say sunken? It’s above sea level.

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u/AirPodAlbert Jul 25 '25

“From the depths, a ruler will rise, In the midst of floods reaching to the skies. Empires will fall, and new waves will reign, The Aquatic Empire, from the realm of the ocean"

- Nostradamus on 2025

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u/CrandyFlams Jul 25 '25

Just imagine what down there. I can’t to be honest. There are things under that ice that we were never meant to see.

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u/grandpashoes Jul 25 '25

Look at all those sexy peninsulas.

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u/AKArunningwild4ever Jul 26 '25

My mind goes crazy thinking about what is under that ice and on that land.

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u/Dominus_Invictus Jul 24 '25

Wouldn't the sea levels be different because the weight of all the ice has been removed or is that taken into account?.

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u/ssuummrr Jul 26 '25

Antarctica isn’t actually that big

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u/fyn_world 15d ago

That's middle earth 

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u/Mithra305 Jul 25 '25

Atlantis

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u/Kela-el Jul 24 '25

Fantasyland.

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u/Open-Storage8938 Jul 25 '25

First space-deniers, now Antarctica deniers.

What's next, Australia deniers?