r/imaginarymaps • u/Lasseslolul • Jul 23 '20

[OC] Hand-Drawn A map of Europe, if sea levels would rise 200 meters (ignore the little red lines they´re just for fun)

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u/The_Bearabia Jul 23 '20

I personally think that the dutch would still have their full territory, we have a knack for telling the sea to go bother someone else.

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 23 '20

but not if the sea says: "f*ck the dutch" and comes with a 200 meter high wave

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u/The_Bearabia Jul 23 '20

*pulls 200 meter high dyke out from behind his back * Not this time sea, mwaha

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u/NederlandsePotato Jul 24 '20

I think some of our territories would be taken over, like most of noord and zuid holland, and flevoland but we would be able to either keep or recover lost lands.

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u/MagnoliaTM Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

I don't know about that one chieftain. They say God created the world but the Dutch created their own country. Those mans apparently managed to lift a whole landmass out of the sea and put a flag on it.

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u/faerakhasa Jul 24 '20

The maximun possible sea rise once every last ice cube of the planet melts is about 100 m, and it would be a process that lasts over 1,000 years. There would not be any wave, 200 meter of 10 meter.

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 24 '20

I know. I didn´t meant it to be realistic. it was just for fun. also what if thousands of ice asteroids hit the earth wouldn´t cause it a rise of sea levels?

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u/johnngnky Jul 24 '20

Netherlands would probably build the delta 2.0 and be the only country to survive intact lol

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 24 '20

switzerland would survive too lol

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u/AndreBoi Jul 23 '20

All the coasts... They're like Norway...

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u/kibtiskhub Jul 23 '20

The fjords just laughed in defiance

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u/AndreBoi Jul 23 '20

Literally old France looks like a baby Norway

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u/kibtiskhub Jul 23 '20

Ooohhh I see what you mean now. Yes.

"It's all Norway?" "Always has been"

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u/AndreBoi Jul 23 '20

Also Italy's been on a diet and her legs are looking fine

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u/kibtiskhub Jul 23 '20
  • Kicks Sicily elegantly *

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u/paulmclaughlin Jul 23 '20

Slartibartfast would be happy

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u/tourorist Jul 23 '20

The Finland Doesn't Exist prophecy realized.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Nothing changed.

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u/MyPpHurts-Help Jul 23 '20

Russia is gon

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 23 '20

Sadly yes

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u/beardedheathen Jul 24 '20

Yes...sadly....

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u/Kelloggs_Cereal_ Jul 23 '20

The Caspian sea is now actually a sea

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 23 '20

This map was drawn off of an elevation map from an late 80´s atlas I found at home.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Spain is just a big plateau, even if the sea level rise 400 meters my town will be ok.

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u/doylew01 Jul 23 '20

Is it just me, or does France look like Norway?

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u/Nachos_of_Nurgle Jul 24 '20

At least the Aral Sea came back!

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u/2xa1s Jul 24 '20

Does Switzerland just take over France?

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u/_Bentai_ Jul 24 '20

Even the Russian winter couldn’t protect them from their one weakness: water

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u/Lorem_64 Jul 24 '20

Wales and Iceland just vibin

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Poland can't into space but Poland can into sea

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20

Capital of Russia now Manilagrad

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u/Brotherly-Moment Jul 24 '20

Rip Sweden

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

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u/Brotherly-Moment Jul 24 '20

Spain looking fine though.

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u/Stickmanking Jul 24 '20

Ngl it looks sick, especially the Russian islands.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

*crab rave* England is gone *crab rave*

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u/Lord_Giano Jul 24 '20

Switzerland, Austria, Kosovo: come and get me assh0le

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 24 '20

Vienna is dead

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u/bigjam16 Jul 24 '20

The Swiss prevail!

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u/SomeSurround12 Jul 24 '20

British people be like: drowning noise

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u/420_Brit_ISH Jul 24 '20

France looks like Norway

Ak sad o ima nice to Spain/Italy

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u/Ari_Kalahari_Safari Jul 24 '20

Switzerland can into coastline

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u/SprinklKnight Jul 24 '20

Dude ICEland do be doing ok tho

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u/redman2 Jul 24 '20

Ahhhhhhhhhhh : this is our alternate future !

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u/Megakillerx Jul 24 '20

So Europe during the Jurassic period?

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u/X-AE-AXII Jul 24 '20

The UK finally left Europe.

Of course, I know the difference between Europe and the E.U. so /s

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u/onewingedangel3 Jul 24 '20

Where would the water be coming from? Even the ice caps melting wouldn't be this severe.

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u/tumning Jul 25 '20

I love this world. ISLAND RUSSIANS

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 28 '20

Even though millions of people died?

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u/emolga72 Jul 23 '20

Oh God the Russians took Georgia

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 24 '20

no they didn´t. i forgot to mark it but this georgia thing is its own country

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u/Breakingerr Mod Approved Jul 24 '20

Then why it's called Tiflis? Georgians call it Tbilisi.

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 24 '20

I am sorry. I live in Germany and so was the atlas in german.

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u/Ale_city Jul 24 '20

You got the elevation of Iberia wrong, it would be less flooded

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 24 '20

Not my fault. I drew this map from an atlas so the atlas must be wrong

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u/Ale_city Jul 24 '20

Or maybe mistook the elevation colour in the map a bit? I mean, it is not very bad, just a minor pedantry of mine to point it out.

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 24 '20

That might be it

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Oh god, the UK and like half of eastern europe is just straight up gone

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u/Eduerdo2K Jul 24 '20

Most of the Balearics wouldnt go down

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 24 '20

Oh frick I forgot the balearics!

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Damn well I’m dead. Time to grow gills

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u/Lasseslolul Jul 24 '20

Me too bro, me too

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

mfw my hometown is now a seaside resort, previously located 15 miles from the sea

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u/converter-bot Jul 24 '20

15 miles is 24.14 km

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u/Sir_Poopinglot Jul 24 '20

Græder på dansk

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u/ShinyChromeKnight Jul 24 '20

France just looks like Norway now

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u/ObjectiveMall Jul 25 '20

The Caspian Sea finally wouldn't be a lake any more.

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u/Cusi_Yupanqui Jul 30 '20

I love the idea of a Russian temperate island empire

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u/nahmknot May 23 '24

One piece world

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u/Spiritfur May 23 '24

OP's about to have a bunch of One Piece fans here, especially with the red line mention.

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u/Lasseslolul May 24 '24

This post is 3 years old, how can you and I still comment on it? Shouldn’t it be long archived?

And no. In 3 years since posting this I don’t think I have ever had OnePiece fans here

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u/Spiritfur May 24 '24

I think the archive rule may be different subreddit to subreddit, but I'm not sure.

And I only said what I did in my comment because a new chapter (unofficially) came out yesterday, and someone added a link to this post in their comment.

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u/Lasseslolul May 24 '24

Someone added a link to this post in their comment

Ok wow that’s cool

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u/Hack_Dawg May 24 '24

The one piece is real.

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u/The2nd_man May 27 '24

Im curious, why 200 meters?

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u/Lasseslolul May 27 '24

Fun. And because 200 m looks more exciting than 100 or 500 meters.

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u/Saturnius1145 May 27 '24

seems a bit arbitrary since even if all ice caps on earth melted it would only lead to about 70-100 meter increase.

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u/Lasseslolul May 27 '24

Wow. It’s almost as if I had already said that it was arbitrary in the first place.

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u/LiterallyKesha May 28 '24

What's crazy is One Piece confirmed exactly 200 meters in their latest chapter.

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u/Lasseslolul May 29 '24

I didn’t know One Piece was on Earth

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u/Typical-Thyme May 29 '24

Bro must've been working with Oda

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u/Lasseslolul May 29 '24

Is One Piece even set on Earth?