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Another thing we mostly have no clue about thanks to most of our maps is how massively large the Pacific ocean is.
And somehow fellas just sort of wandered to places like pitcairn islands, chance of a million.
Pitcairn islands are a great wikipedia rabbit hole if you're into freaky crazy shit btw.
There's a whole season of the podcast Extremities about Pitcairn. Totally worth it.
thank you hans
The band Rasputina does a good bit about the Pitcairn Islands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Perilous_World
Yeah the mutineers are one thing but wait til you get to the extent of child rape on the island that reached the point at which most of it was brushed off since essentially the whole island would've had its total male population imprisoned. Some wacky ass shit going down there let me tell ya.
Most shit is ass shit.
This is the kind of deep insight I stay on Lemmy for.
What a wild read. Thanks for sharing
Ended up watching this awesome indie documentary about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7MWxADnko
Well that's my evening plans locked. Thanks for sharing looks cool
Can confirm, I lived in the middle of it (Polynesia), first airports (Auckland and LA) were 6 and 8h flights away.
What is it like over there? How's foods and all?
It's fine, it depends which island you go to, the big ones have supermarkets, restaurants, etc etc. You can eat almost anything but will pay a premium for stuff that gets imported by plane. If it's one of the smaller/less populated ones then you need to get your groceries by the weekly plane delivery and otherwise a lot of coconut and fish.
I heard they have a lot of Polynesian food.
Lots of Polynesian sauce
It must have been a real pain in the ass catching those flights without an airport. Did people get shot out of a cannon and hope to grab onto the wing? Did their baggage also get cannoned?
No no the flights are caught, but with giant butterfly nets, you have to jump on the back of the plane like it's a rodeo and get in that way, it's fine after the first couple times you get the hang of it.
Or that the shortest route to China is over Siberia.
Yeah that is pretty crazy - you barely need to fly over any ocean to get to China from the USA
That depends entirely on where you start.
True, American here.
Presumably not Alaskan or Hawaiian too.
I'll pm you my exact lat and long
pirate island birds tweets in the background
If you would push all the landmasses together, they would still be smaller than the Pacific ocean.