Friday Funny: Cartographers Are Hiding an Idyllic Continent
The rest of the world would only spoil it for the mapmakers.
"Pausing to briefly reflect on their immense good fortune between long sessions of nude sunbathing and plucking perfectly ripe tropical fruit from the rare vegetation surrounding them, the world’s cartographers reportedly continued living their secret lives of luxury this week on the idyllic, never-disclosed eighth continent they call home."
That's the premise of a funny, make believe (OR IS IT?) story written for The Onion.
We assume the GIS technicians among the Planetizen audience can neither confirm nor deny the existence of a secret eighth continent.
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Published on Wednesday, September 5, 2018 in
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