# Who was your Pangaean neighbor? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332 "2012-11-17T18:16:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/21 "2012-11-18T11:15:43Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I’m still between Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, although the Mediterranean sea has shrunk to a couple of lakes, and the Indian Ocean is much closer, which is nice. Probably have one of the nicer non coastal parts of Pangea. The Ocean is relatively nearby and the two inland seas make it a better climate than most of Inland Pangea. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/22 "2012-11-18T12:28:13Z")
Barney Rubble. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/23 "2012-11-18T13:05:12Z")
Looking at the flora around at the time, possibly a [Plateosaurus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateosaurus) with a French accent. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/24 "2012-11-18T13:19:47Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > It looks like I’ve always lived next to the Pacific here in SoCal. I wonder what that island is off the coast. Idaho’s Portugal ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/25 "2012-11-18T13:26:39Z")
It looks like my neighbor was Jamaica mon. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/26 "2012-11-18T13:37:10Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > What’s the nearest point to you in Pangaean America? Some chunk of real estate east of Hudson Bay, northern Newfoundland and Labrador by the look of it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/27 "2012-11-18T13:38:12Z")
The closest, about 500 miles away, would be Western Sahara. Lots of sand. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/28 "2012-11-18T16:10:47Z")
Water, lots of water. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/29 "2012-11-18T18:22:50Z")
I live smack dab in the middle of North America, so no new neighbors. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/30 "2012-11-18T18:26:55Z")
Panama originated volcanically long after the breakup of Pangaea, so none. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/31 "2012-11-19T17:52:12Z")
France, same as today. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/32 "2012-11-19T18:04:14Z")
Maybe Sierra Leone or Liberia. Not being very bright I’m having a hard time envisioning which modern day African country would be near to Georgia, USA. Then again I live in western GA so still Florida and Alabama just as then. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/33 "2012-11-19T18:12:47Z")
Venezuela… once a rift, always a rift. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/34 "2012-11-19T18:29:08Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Looks like maybe Morocco. Looks more like Algeria to me. ---
**Author:** ![Terra1041](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Terra1041](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terra1041)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/35 "2012-11-19T18:50:27Z")
Nowhere, since I’m on the Pacific Ocean ^\_~ Interesting map, though. I always thought it was weird how modern Antarctica is almost perfectly centered around the South Pole (if you exclude the chunks of missing land), and part of it is very close to a circle. ---
**Author:** ![ed\_anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbce88/32.png) [@ed\_anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ed_anger)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/36 "2012-11-19T18:59:52Z")
The Gambia ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/37 "2012-11-19T21:29:01Z")
> [@ed\_anger](#): > > The Gambia Let me guess— North Carolina? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/38 "2020-05-08T19:26:03Z")
Update: Map of Pangaea with modern borders: [Incredible Map of Pangea With Modern-Day Borders](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/incredible-map-of-pangea-with-modern-borders/) This new, more detailed map brings in new revised answers. In my case, it turns out Virginia’s neighbor was not Senegal, it was the south of Western Sahara. You have to cross-reference the Pangaea map with a good modern map of the country. In Pangaean days you could walk from Dakhla, Western Sahara, to Virginia Beach—because it wasn’t a beach then! 😛 Dakhla had been called Villa Cisneros by the colonialists; it was named after a Spanish Inquisitor. :eek: (I wasn’t expecting that.) I like Dakhla much better; sounds nicer. Geologically, I have to note that the new map I linked to had to finagle the shape of Pangaean geography somewhat to work in the modern borders of countries to make it easy for modern folks to refer to. What are now solid countries sometimes look pretty mangled in their Pangaean version. I’d like to see geological societies advocate for sister-city relationships based on Pangaean neighborliness. Start with Dakhla and Virginia Beach. Now that it has a beach. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/39 "2020-05-08T20:46:10Z")
I hadn’t realized quite how long Florida had been America’s wang. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332/40 "2020-05-08T20:59:34Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I hadn’t realized quite how long Florida had been America’s wang. The foundation of Florida is a bit of detached Africa. However, the part above water was deposited between the Eocene and Miocene, after Pangaea broke up. It wasn’t dry land when it broke up. Panama and Costa Rica originated as a chain of underwater volcanoes far out in the Pacific in the late Cretaceous that eventually drifted eastward to collide with southern North America. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-pangaean-neighbor/641332.md?page=3)