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Originally Posted by Bruno
Australia and Antarctica make crappy counterweight continents too - there is simply a disproportionate amount of exposed landmass above the equator. The base theory that there are continents below the equator to counterbalance the continents above the equator is bunkum, and provably bunkum. It's within screaming distance of the truth ("There are continents below the equator") but purely by accident.
Never mind that the earth doesn't need counterweights because The World Doesnt Doesn't Work That Way.
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Fair enough, but believing in an incorrect theory is not the same as being a fantasist. I'm not an expert on ancient geography who can tell you why they believed in a southern continent, but Tzeentch might be able to explain since he is doing graduate work in that areas. I'm also unaware of any ancient maps which showed such continents ...