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tl;dr Australia moves north by about the speed your hair and fingernails grow.
by alaithea 7y ago
tl;dr Australia moves north by about the speed your hair and fingernails grow.
- BurningFrog 7y agoWest Iceland drifts west, and east Iceland drifts east, resulting in a 2cm widening per year: https://icelandmag.is/article/how-fast-iceland-growing-due-tectonic-plates-drifting-apart https://icelandmag.is/article/how-fast-iceland-growing-due-t...
- notJim 7y agoWell that's one way to tackle the over-tourism problem.
- Udik 7y agoI wonder if it would be possible to detect the movement by choosing some narrow and very popular touristic spot (such as the top of a building, a viewpoint on a cliff..) and averaging the gps coordinates of the public pictures taken by tens of thousands of visitors during the years. It would be cool.