# Is this fictional map plausible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 1, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805 "2011-02-01T19:08:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/21 "2011-02-02T12:12:02Z")
> [@Keeve](#): > > Consider that world’s version of New York City, on the northwest coast of the North Atlantic States:Lake Manhattan would have almost no land at all, except for the Central Park Islands. But it would be the greatest, most thriving, most _alive_ lake in the world!!1!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/22 "2011-02-02T13:27:00Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > The center of the Pacific Continent would be a megadesert that would be like the Sahara multiplied by the Gobi multiplied by the Tibetan Plateau. Would we have only visited it once? For twenty minutes? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/23 "2011-02-02T14:14:34Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > That’s the coolest site I’ve seen all year. Sigh. Giving it a glance, the site looks like a vehicle to deliver furry art to the unwilling masses. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/24 "2011-02-02T17:15:00Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > That’s the coolest site I’ve seen all year. > [@elmwood](#): > > Sigh. Giving it a glance, the site looks like a vehicle to deliver furry art to the unwilling masses. :rolleyes: Perhaps **Sunspace** meant just the subsection on alternate world maps? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/25 "2011-02-02T17:18:42Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Perhaps **Sunspace** meant just the subsection on alternate world maps? There’s furry art in there, too. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/26 "2011-02-02T19:27:15Z")
re. the OP Looks like Kalighoul…the homeworld of the Technophage. [http://www.escapecomics.com/acatalog/teknophage-1-1995.jpg](http://www.escapecomics.com/acatalog/teknophage-1-1995.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/27 "2011-02-02T19:44:56Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Sigh. Giving it a glance, the site looks like a vehicle to deliver furry art to the unwilling masses. :rolleyes: _That_’s why it’s flagged as “adult content”. ---
**Author:** ![pdunderhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@pdunderhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pdunderhill)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/28 "2011-02-02T21:33:47Z")
And meanwhile in Narnia people learn how to read without moving their lips. This is worthy of 5 seconds notice. P ---
**Author:** ![pdunderhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@pdunderhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pdunderhill)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/29 "2011-02-02T21:48:20Z")
Actually that post was a little terse, if you want something to grow the intellect google ‘gondwanaland’, the currently accepted stucture of the Continents before tectonic shift moved them apart. The real world is so much more interesting than mere optical tricks. Peter, occasional curmudgeon! ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805/30 "2011-02-02T22:19:02Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Sigh. Giving it a glance, the site looks like a vehicle to deliver furry art to the unwilling masses. :rolleyes: You say that like there’s something wrong with that. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-fictional-map-plausible/569805.md?page=1)