From what I've seen, the Anarctic continent apparently broke off from the Indian sub-continent and adjoining land masses (Indian Ocean) and is drifting towards the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Pacific. Here are two maps to illustrate this:
It looks like Great Polynesia should be Greater India. SouthWriter 21:50, September 21, 2010 (UTC)
- But it's possible to land in the pacific? VENEZUELA 21:55, September 21, 2010 (UTC)
Two ways it could "land" in the Pacific:
- If the dirft pushed Indonesia and Australia out of the way.
- If the drift took a sharp turn around Australia.
The plate techtonics seem pretty conclusive. Unless some other force acted upon the land masses, they would end up where they are today. If Antarctica did not drift as fast as it apparently did in our time line, then it would be in the Indian Ocean, and still as tropical as you want it to be. SouthWriter 23:18, September 21, 2010 (UTC)
- So if Antartica lands at the Indian, how can colonize it? and what name would it have? VENEZUELA 23:38, September 21, 2010 (UTC)
The possibilities are endless as to colonization, for it would be on all the nautical trade routes to the far east. It would probably have traffic from all sides -- Africa, Arabia, India, and Indonesia. Eventually, Europeans tired of trading through the Arabians, would sail around Africa and find it as well. The spices in the islands would probably be available on the continent of [Insert name here] and thus shorten the dangerous trips through the myriad of strange islands. If their goods weren't being bought by Europeans and Arabians, they'd probably have different relations with the Asians. With so much early contact, colonization would have been early as well. The "Atlantis" of legend might even have arisen there!
It was fairly simple if this was isolated in the Pacific, but in the Indian Ocean it changes far more than we could imagine! It almost falls into a "parallel history" with a new world to build. As to what to name it? Something with "India" in it might work. How about Indusia -- named by the first travelers sailing out from ports on the Indus river at the dawn of civiilization. It could have been the ultimate "Gilligan's Island" -- accidently blown off course, across the open sea in boats that had never been out of sight of land. Shipwrecked, they might even have stayed -- and assuming a woman or two, they could have become the indigenous people there!
Possibilities abound, but the "butterfly effect is huge." Good luck on whatever you do with it. SouthWriter 23:59, September 21, 2010 (UTC)
- Oh my God, would you please, please, please, porfavor!!! work with me!!! on this!!!! please tell some countries that would be different in TTL: VENEZUELA 00:16, September 22, 2010 (UTC)
Okay, don't panic, Vene. Let's put the continent 1,000 miles south of India, and 1300 miles west of Australia, and 1300 miles east of Africa. Madegascar would not have separated from Antarctica, nor would Sri Lanka split from India. Also, the Malay peninsula and the Indonesian islands would probably not have broken apart as they did, This is all a cosequence of an arrested continental drift. The continent, closer to India than any other emerging civilization is first found by them as the venture out to sea. It is a bit far, so we can assume an accidental coastal storm in the Indian Ocean drove them to their new home. This would be at the dawn of the civilization of southern India. And so, "Indusia" is born.
Coastal vessels going around a larger Malaysia may miss the island for millenia, but the seas would be shallower, and the danger of the sea not as great (due to a large continent blocking colder winds from the polar ocean, and from shallower seas based on less drift). Adventurous Asian sailors would most likely find the continent well before Europeans or Arabians (coming from ports on the Red Sea and Persian Gulf). It is possible that the Europeans, beginning with De Gama of Portugal would find the continent seeking a route around Africa to the Asian markets. With few islands in southwest Asia, tribal dynamics might have developed differently as well. Mayasia and Indonesia might be one nation. And once the Muslim took over the area, they might have controlled much of the Chinese trade route that would have traveled between the islands that there in our time line,
I'd think that by our day Indusia would be populated by Indian and Malay/Indonesian peoples as aboriginals. The French and English would have attempted colonization and probably succeeded until the Muslim influence became too strong. I'm thinking that the dymamics of Indonesia would be shifted some to Indusia, but with less crowding. Perhaps, in fact, the crowded squalor of India and Indonesia would not be so much of a problem, given an immigration to a land mass the size of Europe at their "back door." I hope that has given you something to go on. Search the histories of the nations around the Indian Ocean, and see what comes up. SouthWriter 02:02, September 22, 2010 (UTC)
I already shearched the history of Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives, and Madagascar, so would lemurs and fossas would exist there? I think it would colonized originally the north by buddhist, later by Muslims, then small parts by the portuguese, and finally the island divided between Dutch Indusia, British, and French. later 3 sovereign countries.
06:13, September 22, 2010 (UTC)
And I think first polynesian peoples, later some mauryans, bantus, arabs, and finally european peoples. and about Malaysia-Indonesia would it be like in this map? VENEZUELA
Looks about right, and the vegetation around the edges give an indication of what that of the new continent would be like as well. I figure that would be no land bridges to Indusia, so the variations of plant and animals would depend on migration by air and water for the most part -- birds, sea mammals, that sort of thing. Larger animals would be like those prevelent in Africa and India at the time of the split from those continents. SouthWriter 14:09, September 22, 2010 (UTC)