• expatriado@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Caribbean from Asia? did they take the Panama Canal 400 years before it was built? there is not path that isn’t crazy

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      10 days ago

      I assumed one finally got lucky and got around the southern tip of Africa while headed west.

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      10 days ago

      There’s a current originating in Indian ocean flowing south of Africa to the gulf of Mexico, before proceeding north east between Iceland and Great Britain. It’s why Scandinavia is so much warmer than the same latitude in the Americas. I’m 55 north in Denmark, and have hardly seen snow this winter, meanwhile Edmonton in Canada is 2° south of that.

      Coconuts bobbing around the south of Africa is pretty wild, but not implausible.