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Re:New Norwegian land could emerge from The Atlantic Ocean by arcticbull on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @08:31PM (#34435626)
Well yes, but China claims that their development of the islands makes them sufficiently substantial. They've built airports, military bases, ports and entire developments. Check out the 'before and after' photos. [1]

Frankly, I think their claim may just get upheld in due course. To be clear I think it's shameful and an environmental catastrophe, but I've no doubt they will invest as much time and effort as deemed necessary to make these substantial islands.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinas-artificial-islands-...

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Re:New Norwegian land could emerge from The Atlantic Ocean by post-it on Thursday January 19, 2023 @01:08AM (#34437235)
> The reef itself was only 7.2 square kilometers; it has been expanded to add another 100,000 square meters.

This sounds as though the author doesn't know that 100,000 square metres = 0.1 square kilometres.

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Re:New Norwegian land could emerge from The Atlantic Ocean by arcticbull on Thursday January 19, 2023 @01:21AM (#34437311)
Agreed, as peer pointed out that's bad journalism. It's also old (a 2016 write-up). I imagine it's evolved a lot since.
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Re:New Norwegian land could emerge from The Atlantic Ocean by renewiltord on Thursday January 19, 2023 @01:09AM (#34437243)
Haha, journalists are really something else

> The reef itself was only 7.2 square kilometers; it has been expanded to add another 100,000 square meters.

So they took a 7.2 km^2 thing and made it 7.3 km^2?

Cool photos by the way. Thank you for sharing link.

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