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Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts

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Re: Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

georgemcbay wrote: post #19
robot-wrangler wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or something darker.. R'yleh where dead Cthulu lies dreaming is out there near Point Nemo too ;)

Or something even darker than that... What if this story took place on a planet where the inhabitants collectively decided to value at-all-costs economic growth over a sustainable ecosystem, resulting in a situation where they were losing over a trillion metric tons of ice per year and that is what caused the mysterious island to be revealed...?

So basically Epstein island without the child sexual abuse?

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Post by readthenotes1 »

sanex wrote: post #22

This appears to be a relatively scientific institution and yet they don't use the internationally recognized unit of measurement the American football field. I have no idea how big this island is now.

It's a little cryptic, but I believe this passage "slightly longer than the Polarstern with its 118 metres and about twice as wide"

tells us it's the size of two Polarsterns laid side by side.

I still don't know what that is in terms of football fields, I assume you mean United States and not Canada, but maybe someone else can help out as I've gone as far as I can.

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Post by nostrademons »

readthenotes1 wrote: post #23
sanex wrote: post #22

This appears to be a relatively scientific institution and yet they don't use the internationally recognized unit of measurement the American football field. I have no idea how big this island is now.

It's a little cryptic, but I believe this passage "slightly longer than the Polarstern with its 118 metres and about twice as wide" tells us it's the size of two Polarsterns laid side by side. I still don't know what that is in terms of football fields, I assume you mean United States and not Canada, but maybe someone else can help out as I've gone as far as I can.

It's about a football field in both length and width. Little bit longer.

Re: Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts

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Post by rtpg »

arcticfox wrote: post #15
nl wrote: post #8

It's not explicitly stated but it seems that this island was not charted because the area it was in had previously been full of icebergs. > On the satellite images analysed, the island could hardly be distinguished from the numerous icebergs drifting around in the immediate vicinity due to its ice cover.

I have no interest in finding islands, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to find icebergs that never move.

reading this I was wondering about this.

My sort of childlike mental model of satelite imagery of the planet is that we've "covered" everything but does anyone know at what frequency we do get new satelite imagery for places like the antarctic (or, say, the dead middle of the atlantic ocean?)

I imagine that satelite imagery is a bit needs based but maybe every square meter of the earth is captured at least once a couple of months

(Not the same thing but am reminded of how despite the importance of the internet and undersea cables for fixing things, there are _very very few_ boats that can actually repair them. Maybe there aren't that many satellites pointing at some parts of the globe)

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Post by jmalicki »

sanex wrote: post #22

This appears to be a relatively scientific institution and yet they don't use the internationally recognized unit of measurement the American football field. I have no idea how big this island is now.

In the words of the great General Washington, we use meters and kilometers for certain unpopular sports like swimming.

So for measuring an island, use of swimming units seems appropriate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk

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Post by justinclift »

robinhouston wrote: post #17
bhouston wrote: post #5

What are the gps coordinates? I want to look it up on Google Maps. Generally somewhere around here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wy1PNDWcvP7h9d4j7?g_st=ic I notice that this area isn’t fully imaged. Just around the known existing islands.

From the article: “The team will publish the exact position of the island once the naming process is complete”

Wonder if it'll be close enough to Greenland for the US (or others) to put a base on it? ;)
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