disneyvacafacts t1_j4w8fg1 wrote
Makes sense, when most of the land is on one half of the earth it makes it hard for anything but ocean to be on the other half. The Pacific ocean take of 30% of the worlds surface.
A_1337_Canadian OP t1_j4w8pmq wrote
I believe the Pacific is as high as 42% or something like that. It's massive! Go look on a globe and stare right at the middle; the whole hemisphere is pretty much ocean!
Makes it more bonkers to think about how old sailors could navigate to the tiny Hawaiian islands right in the middle of nowhere.
disneyvacafacts t1_j4wgwnh wrote
Earth's surface area is 196.6 million square miles and the Pacific is 60 million square miles, that's how I was calculating the 30.5%
A_1337_Canadian OP t1_j4whprp wrote
I a number!
Knull_Gorr t1_j4wl7bp wrote
Those old time seaman used sextons.
Smittywerbenjagerman t1_j4x0lmp wrote
Actually, for the Polynesian islands they didn't have sextants. But they got by just fine. Wikipedia has a whole page on it.
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