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It’s hard to visualise the true size of the Pacific Ocean until you look at it on a globe (lemmy.today)
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[-] ada 4 points 2 weeks ago

Now, imagine you're flying from New Zealand/Australia to South America. That's directly across that part of the globe. It's a LONG flight across nothing but ocean

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