01 June 2025

Some Fantasy Maps


 Venus with as much water as Earth.

Los Angeles and Orange County if the ice sheets all melted.

Ancient India


Adam's Bridge Between India and Sri Lanka Before 1480.


An alternative map of Europe shows post-World War II without Germany. It was never realized, however, plans existed to eradicate Germany from Europe, like Theodore N. Kaufman, who was an advocate of the territorial dismemberment of Germany and the sterilization of the Germans. His book "Germany Must Perish!" was published in 1941.


Alternative Europe in the 1960s if the Axis would've won the Second World War


The state boundary of the states of the United States of America when measured at natural geographical points



The Moon compared to North America.


The Last Glacial Maximum


This map represents what North America looked like 77 million years ago compared to its present shape (the black lines mark the outline of the continent as we know it today). At that time, Canada's Atlantic provinces were part of a large landmass known as Appalachia, while the west coast had not yet been integrated into the continent. All this is a consequence of the movement of tectonic plates. During the Cretaceous Period, the two main landmasses were Laramidia and Appalachia, separated by the Western Interior Sea. The existence of these regions has been confirmed by fossil analysis, which shows distinct species in each. The separation of the continents is explained by tectonic activity, and marine sediments confirm the presence of the sea that divided the two landmasses. Geological maps are created by combining fossil remains, analysis of geological formations, and simulations that allow us to reconstruct the tectonic movements and arrangement of the continents at that time.


Antarctica without its ice.


If the Mediterranean and Black Seas were in North America.


A mish mash map.


Map of Doggerland at its near maximum extent c. 10,000 years Before Present (~8,000 BCE) (top left) and its subsequent disintegration by 7,000 BP (~5,000 BCE)

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