Darren New wrote:

> http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/35-the-size-of-africa/

OK, now that really *is* counter-intuitive. On a map, it looks like the 
coast of Africa and America would "fit together" if you moved a few 
tectonic plates around. But this diagram shows that America is many 
times smaller than Africa, so this would be quite impossible.

This is puzzling, since I thought that Africa *was* connected to America 
in the fairly recent geological past...

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