User blog comment:Wijata Mateusz/Imagine a world without the Americas/@comment-257949-20120724091103/@comment-257949-20120724093816

I'm not entirely convinced how, I'm afraid. I agree they'd resist the erosion better but it would be almost impossible for anyone to even get there. Even if they did, what significance would they have? There wouldn't be many real nations to trade with. I suppose that in some World War analogue in this timeline you could see them used as bases - perhaps on the basis that the enemy would think 'no one is foolish enough to risk their naval assets that far out' - and I imagine this TL's version of James Bond would face off against a few supervillains with their lairs on some remote island in the Great Ocean - but other than that I can't see how they'd be significant!