User:Bryce3/Sandbox/Terra Australis

Terra Australis is the Latin name for "Southern Land". It was a continent hypothesized on the idea that the continents of the Northern Hemisphere should be 'balanced' by those in the south. Whilst varying, many predictions predicted what we now call Antartica reaching much further North, with OTL Australia a peninsula, and South America connected. Whilst we now know this to be untrue, what if the formation of the Earth's continents panned out differently? Whilst Antartica does not span as far northwards as the theory, slightly different plate tectonics meant that Australia is connected to Antartica, whilst an archipelago not present OTL runs from Argentina, through the Falklands, to Antartica. As a result, Australia is bisected by a Mountain range, creating cooling and wetter conditions, as well creating as earthquakes, whilst New Zealand is smaller. Meanwhilst, the new land means that world sea levels are somewhat higher, vastly changing the world.

London is a small collection of towns on the Thames estuary, whilst Cambridge is the coastal Capital of Cammouth. The Netherlands are somewhat more flooded, though land reclamation has similarly developed. In North Africa, Tunisia is a peninsula, whilst seas reach inland. Bangladesh is heavily flooded, meaning that Indian influence has spread. Australia is split into two nations, New Orange in the West, a former Dutch Colony, whilst the East and New Zealand is the Commonwealth of New South Wales, a former British colony.