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Wikipedia: > Legends of the land suggest that it may have extended 20 miles west of the present coast. Any idea of how large these lands were, area-wise?
by tpmx 4y ago
Wikipedia:
> Legends of the land suggest that it may have extended 20 miles west of the present coast.
Any idea of how large these lands were, area-wise?
- gus_massa 4y agoFrom the research article: > The dimensions of the offshore islands may be estimated in proportion to these respective two sets of measurements, so that the southern island measures approximately 6.6 × 3.8 km (ca. 19.7 km^2) and the northern island 10.7 × 5.8 km (ca. 48.7 km^2), and that the islands lie ca. 3.5–4.0 km from the mainland shore. However, these measurements must be viewed with extreme caution given the poor areal accuracy of the Gough Map. Later in the article they estimate that the sea erosion was 5-10m/y and the alleged islands disappeared in 5 approximately centuries, so a width of 5km is consistent.