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The Antipodal Location of Continents and Oceans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. F. Evison  and
P. Whittle
F. F. Evison
Affiliation:
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
P. Whittle
Affiliation:
Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.
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Abstract

Five-sixths of all the continental area on the Earth's surface has antipodes in oceanic regions. This proportion is not significantly different from what one would expect on the assumption that the continents are randomly situated.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 98 , Issue 5 , October 1961 , pp. 377 - 379
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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