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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

That's where the rescue team comes from in The Chrysalids

[–] coolie4@lemmy.world 25 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Literally everywhere is part of a bigger sunken landmass. Just depends where you draw the contour lines.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That's true, but Zealandia would be the world's largest microcontinent and links Aotearoa with New Caledonia and Rēkohu. Its topography is super cool and makes for a neat range for deep-sea, benthic organisms.

See also: the Tonga–Kermadec Ridge to the northeast, which imo looks sick.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They flooded Old Zealand to seal Sauron away.

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

Then the Dutch drained it, built the Deltaworks, and now we live in purgatory

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

Ah, that makes more sense. I did remember it being a Dutch acquisition.

Dutch cartographers subsequently renamed Tasman's discovery Nova Zeelandia from Latin, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. This name was later anglicised to New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I remember that part of DS :D ... not for anything good, tho

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I remember going down there too early and not knowing what to do.

[–] Jimbo@pawb.social 3 points 2 hours ago

Atlantis is somewhere down there

[–] BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Yo momma so old she was born in Zealand.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Man, thier items must have some crazy descriptions on them

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Here's an example:

Limb of the victim of a curse.
Temporary curse allows engagement with ghosts. The only way to fight back against ghosts, who are cursed beings, is to become cursed oneself.
The safest method, however dreadful, is to cut off an arm of the dead.