{"id":1819327,"date":"2023-10-18T18:07:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T22:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1819327"},"modified":"2023-10-18T18:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T22:07:24","slug":"xkcds-dubious-islands-arent-technically-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/10\/xkcds-dubious-islands-arent-technically-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"xkcd&#8217;s Dubious Islands Aren&#8217;t Technically Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2838\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/dubious_islands.png\" alt=\"Dubious Islands, an xkcd comic\" width=\"740\" height=\"1040\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randall Munroe, \u201cDubious Islands,\u201d xkcd, 6 Oct 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2838\/\">the xkcd for October 6th<\/a>, I said to myself: that can\u2019t be right. But I checked and yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wollaston_Lake\">Wollaston Lake<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isa_Lake\">Isa Lake<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bifurcation_lake\">bifurcation lakes<\/a>, so it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the xkcd for October 6th, I said to myself: that can\u2019t be right. But I checked and yes, Wollaston Lake and Isa Lake are bifurcation lakes, so it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1256],"tags":[274,555,1023,273],"class_list":["post-1819327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-hydrology","tag-comics","tag-north-america","tag-watersheds","tag-xkcd","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1813026,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/03\/xkcd-island-storage\/","url_meta":{"origin":1819327,"position":0},"title":"xkcd: &#8216;Island Storage&#8217;","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 March 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"The xkcd from last Friday, \u201cIsland Storage,\u201d is the most recent map-related way that Randall Munroe has hurt us in the eyes.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"xkcd #2742, 'Island Storage' (24 Feb 2023)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/island_storage.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/island_storage.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/island_storage.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/island_storage.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1788273,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/xkcd-reaction-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1819327,"position":1},"title":"xkcd: Reaction Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 January 2020","format":"image","excerpt":"The latest xkcd comic suggests a fiendish way to express yourself: by creating phrases from driving direction waypoints. 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The latest in his \u201cBad Map Projection\u201d series (previously: All South Americas, Time Zones, Liquid Resize) is The Greenland Special, an equal-area projection except for Greenland, which uses Mercator.\u00a0And\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Unusual Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Unusual Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/unusual-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"xkcd: Bad Map Projections: The Greenland Special","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/xkcd-greenland-special-1024x895.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/xkcd-greenland-special-1024x895.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/xkcd-greenland-special-1024x895.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/xkcd-greenland-special-1024x895.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1787082,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/pop-vs-soda-maps-spoofed-by-xkcd\/","url_meta":{"origin":1819327,"position":4},"title":"Pop vs. Soda Maps Spoofed by xkcd","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 February 2019","format":"image","excerpt":"By law, I am required to share every xkcd comic about maps. Today's makes great fun of pop versus soda maps\u2014the maps showing where in the U.S. carbonated beverages are referred to as pop versus where they're referred to as soda. 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