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Originally Posted by Astromancer
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Several times in Earth's history caldera eruptions have massively disrupted Earth's climate. The eruption of mount Tambora being a well known example. Predictions and scare stories about the Yellowstone Caldera are genre unto themselves. ..... |
This sits right across the time period during which European explorers were working out that there was a big land mass south of the Indonesian archipelago. However, historically a couple of years after the First Fleet first arrived in Port Jackson (aka Sydney), British and American seal hunters were already fighting over access to the seal colonies of SE Australia.
It's possible that American mercantile interests could set up in the Antipodes. Mind you, the Maori might be a bit of a handful for the new republic...