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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Near the British Empire then.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Are kids today so Vine-brained they don't understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Headline syntax sucks.

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you leave Antarctica, you're heading north. Is it North of Antarctica toward Australia, South Africa, Patagonia or some other northerly direction from Antarctica?

That's the ambiguity inherent to the headline.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where else would you succinctly say the Weddell sea is?

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

East of the Antarctic peninsula.

Anyplace off the coast of Antarctica is, by definition, north of it. But the Weddell Sea is a specific area of the Southern Ocean.

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[–] lath@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Don't be too hard on them, they're new.

[–] NewDark@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

But they aren't wrong

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

[–] BumbyJohnson@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

They must be thinking in Mercator map instead of Globe.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

TBF it's also south of the Arctic Ocean.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'll have to use that one.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Of course they aren’t going to give the exact location. That wreck would be ransacked for scrap metal if it isn’t resting too deep. Like in Indonesia several WW2 shipwrecks have gone missing.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 week ago

Anyway this turns only absurd if it referred to the exact pole, geographic or magnetic, but not from the continent as is.

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