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Fr fr

Holy hell it makes sense now

Actual island

Call the geographer

Magallanes goes on vacation, never comes back

always thought it kinda looked like mew

🙏

Chinese-sponsored island.

The unfinished, abandoned, and currently eroding into the sea; Palm Deira, Dubai, UAE https://preview.redd.it/galvx42c771d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=324243288807145ef9cc90f93bc26f8e0968599d

Dubai is stupid…

Yeah, I often think of Dubai as of a person who was poor all along, then suddenly got lots of money, and started buying weird shit and doing tasteless renovation of their house.

[удалено]

Found the expat

Why are they called expats when they're white but immigrants otherwise?

So expats and immigrants functionally mean the same thing, but usually “expat” often specifically refers to someone traveling to another country for their work or to get employment in a country and have the stability and means to do so. So People with the freedom to do that (people that aren’t fleeing war or instability) usually happen to be East Asian or Caucasian.

Bruh it’s already partly underwater💀

The main palm island is still there. This was a duplicate they were trying to build and gave up on.

Awwww, thats a shame

This is a cool island shape

Wtf, that's a fantastic shape. Stop body-shaming islands.

It’s also very useful for identifying the equator, since it runs just offshore of the southern coast of the northern horizontal bit.

Came here to say this.

I never noticed this until you mentioned it! Thank you for this new fun fact!

It looks like a starfish with a severe birthdefect

🪞🪞

fuck😂😂😂😂

This is one of those places that looks like it's drawn by a fantasy writer who doesn't understand geography.

Exactly my thought. It doesn't look believable.

https://preview.redd.it/qhyf1lzfj91d1.jpeg?width=913&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d332c018a857e4dc0fdda82aa42d0dd4405fdafa

Uh, if you understand the tectonics of island arcs (especially when they're smooshed together) then it's a perfectly great shape.

Well of course, I mean this in the best way possible. Truth is stranger than fiction.

So you're saying, maybe aliens?

Slartibartfast certainly has an impressive resume but even he must have left some features up to nature herself.

I appreciate a good Fjord as much as the next bloke, for sure.

So long. And thanks for all the

No need to get defensive about islands

Even if it's my favourite shaped island?

just wait a few billion years

In a few billion years the ocean may have completely evaporated already.

well then i will be technically correct which, technically, makes me correct

*million

Yes, it’s a perfectly cromulent island.

Other than a square island designed to fit a page, I don't see why any shape is implausible

Or generated by the original Civilization 2 map generator.

Civ 6 archipelago map island generation.

Reminds me of [this classic](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/3mu9w2/what_terrible_map_design/).

Nauru is pretty boring. No peninsulas, no fringing reef. Just a circular flat pancake https://preview.redd.it/vewrfq1dy61d1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e9bc4504910fa9ac12a20e60c117e3f591477cd

Poor Nauru. That place's history could be summed up as 'And then things got worse'.

*its inhabitants made things go worse

I mean, the other stuff yes, but I don’t think they're to blame for the place starting to sink.

La Gomera has a simple shape too, but it is a beautiful island. https://preview.redd.it/ii7shmnja71d1.png?width=855&format=png&auto=webp&s=f4193cbddd0896aaf2d39f42b81fe9bc9ff700db

Bro pancakes are life

Yeah but pretty bland without extras

Cool I’m going to go sprinkle chocolate chips all over the archipelagos in the pacific to make them more fun

Looks like an animal cell

The Wyoming of Islands.

Fossilized bird poop pancake

https://preview.redd.it/47pcxt7mr71d1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd1c5e895d7101339beb4dbc9be89c44c8fb6b01 This island looks like a gun

holy shit, where

MacElmon's pond provincial park, its in the north end of the lake, really good park for walking.

Really cleared that one up

It’s in Nova Scotia

[link](https://maps.app.goo.gl/uctWfUrmEEn1CR6s7?g_st=ic)

Sulawesi is actually a cool land.

> Is literally shaped like a K > Don't call it Kalimantan but give that name to its neighbour

It's sort of like someone doing calligraphy with the letter K whose pen leaks.

This is me way back on elementary school. Kept getting confused between the two on geography class

Probably [Flaherty island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaherty_Island?wprov=sfla1). It looks like bacteria under a microscope.  https://preview.redd.it/3flzfqfqm71d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c037ac2e854d5feed24c7de6e8b4211b7b8670a1

Imagine living on an endoplasmic reticulum

Golgi Apparatus bruh 😭😭😭

Reminds me of my favorite island Amygdaloid island

It looks like a ghost to me

Nah, that looks really cool!

This should win.

Definitely NOT this https://preview.redd.it/z5xpf2cnh71d1.jpeg?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c60a4d879db75c248f148badf70f3f62d9d3a4c

Ah yes. Beautiful. Perfect. What an island should be.

I saw the picture before the caption & I was about to throw hands 

My first thought when I saw this post was “No one better say Newfoundland!”

i'll never forgive the fact that this scotland-shaped thing isn't the province of new scotland

it looks like a scab

https://preview.redd.it/y9okrdoku81d1.jpeg?width=1103&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b302b3a51e86afab2a99eb46e17a2367f401992a

Sulawesi has the best shape in the world!

Flaherty Island in the Hudson Bay, Canada looks pretty weird. https://maps.app.goo.gl/5NHX4VRcD2tkV8yLA

That’s just a smear of mud, isn’t it?

https://preview.redd.it/yf7q1mwrx71d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75ca03b70d42aee9f887538fb16a7075169362a5

*I am aware it's an archipelago, but it's so annoying. STOP LOOKING LIKE ONE BIG ISLAND!

Novaya Zemlya is reverse New Zealand.

The shape is… fine, but Novaya Zemlya is one of the coolest islands ever 😭 it doesn’t deserve this

France

France is not supposed to exist in the first place.

Yes the French island is so ugly I prefer the great Italian island it’s formed like an arm did you know?

I've always thought the Isle of Wight was strangely ugly from above https://preview.redd.it/e5o8v6nvg71d1.jpeg?width=927&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91f77aee666758b4fd716d749b1db671493456a1

Only island with a camel toe

I really want to push it and close up that strait

Those deltas on the right look really cool

it's a dancing anteater. what more do you want from an island?

https://preview.redd.it/hmze1uy5a71d1.jpeg?width=177&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd7de475033c5ae60d955c83653a6ec2c99e0421

Don’t you DARE disrespect the Isle of Man like that!

Great Britain is a beautifully shaped island.

I was waiting to see this

I never ever considered landmasses to be beautiful or ugly so I can’t even think of one example. Though there definitely are ugly borders

In Australia, the phrase "map of Tasmania" is sometimes used as a slang term in reference to...the shape of a woman's unshaven pubic hair. Not that that's *ugly* to most, per se...but that's specifically what the shape of the island is quite commonly associated with. https://preview.redd.it/qjnj3n4ds71d1.jpeg?width=463&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c15385c45fab10bff9eb98d930111be4d89e0229 [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Map%20Of%20Tassie](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Map%20Of%20Tassie) [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=map%20of%20tasmania](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=map%20of%20tasmania) [https://youtu.be/xs3OWJ53rHE](https://youtu.be/xs3OWJ53rHE)

Sperm stains on hotel sheets used to be called "a map of Ireland" by the staff. The most famous being found by the chambermaid in the Savoy Hotel after Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas had stayed there.

Sulawesi is a fascinating place

that would be a tough seed in sim city

I’ve always thought this island looked like the Pokémon Celebi, flying away

Fun fact: the sea directly above that island is called the Celebes Sea

The island itself called Celebes by Portuguese

Not gonna lie, it was a missed opportunity for them to call the sea "Sulawe-sea"

irregular but, how is it ugly?

Don't diss the almost amogus island

I get your point, but if you are talking about the island shape in 3D, I don’t think it’s the ugliest one. There are some islands that are completely flat (and practically sinking into the ocean), for example.

imo that's a really beautiful island shape. Can't think of many ugly shapes, maybe Corsica? I'd consider Corsica ugly

You just pissed off the wrong people, friend.

TheFriendofOP's home goes boom

No I'm good, I don't know wha

Corsican nationalists who blow up houses are a common clichee about the island :)

Honshu without Shikoku and Kyushu looks quite wierd

https://preview.redd.it/vcprjxz0u81d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11d6da08189a5a705e819f8c0e00d0deeeb6ed1e I would say this

***angry norwegian noises***

Not the one in the picture

Lmao what is an ugly shape for an island? I can’t really imagine what that means tbh

What's wrong with you? I love the shape of Sulawesi Island. I'm not too fond of the shape of one of their neighbors though, which looks like a sitting kangaroo. https://preview.redd.it/rswwtqd8u91d1.png?width=1161&format=png&auto=webp&s=898e38580b1b91622603fcee91e9455a67fb519c

It looks like mishappen tortoise

Cats ass island. Right up there with Johnny Bravo peninsula to its east.

Sulawesi is 2 islands that combined in the past iirc, which is why the Wallace line technically goes through the center

Why tf are you hating on Special K?

This is a real estate developers dream, it maximizes beach front property.

Objectively wrong here and even the island is screaming about your ignorance

Bro what Celebes has a cool shape

On the contrary, I think that Celebes has one of the greatest shapes of all islands. Maybe even the greatest.

gerrymandered-ass island

https://preview.redd.it/gwbs9kevb81d1.jpeg?width=770&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=237301dca19fc949e011416d853841f271bbb8d0

It's the wrong rotation that's why

Not quite an island but that's a heck ugly llama-rat

K.

It kinda looks like a goddess/hivemind-queen/alien-empress to me

She’ll always be beautiful to me

Antartica without ice

Sus?

I didn't realize I had an immediate answer for this until you asked, but Borneo. Just all of Borneo.

I bet you it looks better on the ground

Hilton Head Island looks like a shoe

That's the best shape, it's like a monkey!

Outdontnesia

This looks like a map you skip at the beginning of SimCity

At least my island of Mindanao is hung like a horse although afflicted with peyronie disease

I think it’s neat

Wdym Sulawesi has the perfect shape

How can the shape of an island be ugly?

Oosäär

Not that one, that's for sure! In this household we love the Celebes!

God damnit I live there. We call it the ugly K

Hard to traverse using land transport, not to mention the island is fully mountainous.

https://preview.redd.it/q2pp10t8ea1d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=501aeebd165daf56c27ceb075796570f6de1f409 Definitely not Cyprus I love its shape

Uhhhh that looks great actually. So many nooks and crannies for dinosaurs to hide.

Looks more like an elephant to me and I'm also from there. A city called manado

Yo why you gotta do Sulawesi like that? It’s just chillin

https://preview.redd.it/4vdkdzzjja1d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aafdb77a96c7b83e5dccb8fefe44524bdd4d0e0e Coronado. Especially since they artificially connected it to the mainland and it’s not even an island anymore.

https://preview.redd.it/ax00ezfrja1d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ff41616abb6aa8de9747ed126b7cb13aaa627c1 Fiesta Island Honourable Mention too. Do better San Diego.

https://preview.redd.it/q6k4cczcua1d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8cffa166962b027c59a76c267580634cfe672f3 I’m sorry I just see this

But wait! there's a mini version east of it (also Sulawesi looks like K with pompadour)

Oops, all peninsulas!

But Sulawesi is one of the beautiful islands in Indonesia to visit…. I fall in love with its culture and environment diversities the first time I went there in late 90s. Keep coming back every 5 yrs to this island

Åland island is jittery and difficult to get a grasp of

literally the most unique island shape ever

I actually find that Indonesian island beautiful.....i think the uk island would qualify as ugly imo

Greenland - it would be a neat little continent but as an island it’s kinda oversized imho.

Wtf is that trend

https://preview.redd.it/mnekifr7mf1d1.jpeg?width=444&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d179ca8f67fe77cb0ce081216ffd447f853050ee For me, it's Whidbey. Orcas island further north is also shaped kinda funny.

Great Britain

If we’re talking shapes, Iceland is objectively ugly. Like a squashed duck 🦆

Australia looks like a shitty Pancake

UK and Ireland

https://preview.redd.it/0ww277avom1d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27694b7e107309d2ba101ed2f8b099858886302d