User blog comment:Wijata Mateusz/Imagine a world without the Americas/@comment-257949-20120724203937/@comment-4989895-20120920065452

The massiveness of said ocean would be why the Pacific Islands would be more significant than in OTL. Like I said before, their being volcanic in nature would make them more resistant to erosion, so their shapes and sizes would be roughly the same as OTL. But they'd be more significant because they would be the only way to cross the ocean. They would be needed as stopover if one wanted to cross the oceans. Not even your average plane nowadays would be able to fly straight from, say, Hong Kong, to, say, London, without stopping over in America someplace. The Pacific Islands, in this TL, would have to fill that role.