Not even close. The American continents are approximately the same size as the Atlantic Ocean.
The Pacific actually contains it’s own antipodal point: it is literally half the globe: a hemisphere.
Or to put it another way. The Americas span approximately five time zones. That’s 75°, let’s be generous and say six to get a nice even 90°. That’s one quarter.
OK, I’ll ask the question: who’s the first guy?
Simon Bolivar, liberator of most of South America. Bolivia is named after him.
Don’t forget The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Thanks! I had just done my first ever reverse image search and found that out.
My best guess up until then was he was called Bob France or something 🙂
There are no remaining pictures of Bob France, so we can only speculate what he looked like.
Peanuts. There’s an entire hemisphere of earth named after one guy
Kanye West?
Nah, Peter North
Admiral William North
Amerigo Vespucci
America isn’t a hemisphere
No, bit the vast majority of all the land in the western hemisphere is called America.
Plus or minus some uninhabited ocean it (as in the two continents) comes very close. It’s basically down to a rounding error of volcanic islands.
Mr Pacific Ocean?
Because the other hemisphere is full of imperialists sitting up the place.
America
Yeah, I got the reference. Not an entire hemisphere, that’s just ameri-centrism.
An approximate hemisphere of land
Not even close. The American continents are approximately the same size as the Atlantic Ocean.
The Pacific actually contains it’s own antipodal point: it is literally half the globe: a hemisphere.
Or to put it another way. The Americas span approximately five time zones. That’s 75°, let’s be generous and say six to get a nice even 90°. That’s one quarter.
Also to add on to that, the americas make up about 28% of earth’s land mass.
Simon Weston?
you should add name tags to the portraits
unless you do that on purpose to lure people into the comment section
Generally I don’t make the memes. I’m just a reposter, and a lazy one at that.