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If you relax the “age of exploration” criterion, you can probably add Iceland; it was reportedly uninhabited before Norse settlement around the 9th century.
If you relax that “age of exploration” and “European” criterion, you can add back in the entire world. (I’m just being silly, not a serious reply to your comment, which I found interesting and topical)
Betting a lot of those islands in the pacific were already discovered by pacific islanders, and and they just decided they didn’t want to use them…
That’s what it says with the asterisk on the graphic.
Theres evidence of people from the Asian Pacific landing in South America, so I dont know why anyone would think they couldnt have found plenty of tiny islands in the pacific and then left
Dumb question, but what do those candy-cane-like-patterns represent on Greenland and Antarctica? Does that mean multiple European countries discovered them? If so isn’t that inaccurate (Greenland was already inhabited prior to Europeans)?
The candycane striping represents Santa in the north and the Antisanta in the south. It’s a multi-purpose map.
Yeah the Greenland one is out of place here. It looks like the coast of Greenland isn’t colored, acknowledging prior human presence. But the interior is colored? I’m sure the people there knew there was land over where they could look and see more land. Just because it was inhospitable doesn’t mean it was unknown.
Why is the US part of Europe?
It is a European settler colony.
It’s sound logic, and I had to check to make sure: First discovery year 1796 - that’s 20 years after USA declared their independence in 1776.
It is not a European country, it’s discoveries should not be counted or included under the UK
“Unknown by humans”? So the natives were not humans?
So the natives were not humans?
Certain Europeans certainly didn’t think so, but I’m glad the subthread clarified your issue with the map so I can just drop in and be silly at you. :)
No natives on these islands (or these areas), that’s the point
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Oh, I see. I saw the mark on Brasil and thought it was on the continent
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