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Here are some geographic names that are a bit on the obscure side. All
you have to do is describe where these areas are in terms of more common geographic names. That is what parts of countries, states, bodies of
water, etc. they're in.

1. Beringia

2. Deccan Traps

3. Doggerland

4. Driftless Area

5. Macaronesia

6. Palouse

7. Sahul (not the Sahel)

8. Salish Sea

9. Sundaland

10. Zealandia


Note 1: Several of these names are of areas that were land during
glacial maxima, when sea level dropped 100+ meters, exposing continental shelves.

Note 2: Since these names are obscure, it's quite possible that the
winning entry will have only a few correct answers. So don't let the
fact that you only know a few answers deter you from entering.
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Dan Tilque (dtilque@frontier.com) writes:

3. Doggerland

Today known as Dogger's bank, a shallow area in the North Sea,
but which was land during the ice age.

10. Zealandia

Southwestern part of Netherlands

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Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com> wrote:

2. Deccan Traps

India

3. Doggerland

under the North Sea

7. Sahul (not the Sahel)

under the ocean between New Guinea and Australia

8. Salish Sea

between Seattle and Vancouver Island
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On 7/25/25 14:04, Erland Sommarskog wrote:

Dan Tilque (dtilque@frontier.com) writes:

10. Zealandia

Southwestern part of Netherlands

I should have put in a note about it not being in Netherlands. My
mistake; it's not Zeeland (note the spelling difference). So if you
haven't done any research on this, I'm going to allow you to amend your
answer if you want.

I checked, no one else has tried to answer this, so don't worry about
having seen other people's submissions.
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On 7/25/25 12:04, Dan Tilque wrote:

10. Zealandia

Just want to add a note to this one: It's not Zeeland in the
Netherlands. Should have put this note in the original quiz.

Sorry for any confusion.
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On 7/25/2025 2:04 PM, Dan Tilque wrote:

Here are some geographic names that are a bit on the obscure side. All
you have to do is describe where these areas are in terms of more common geographic names. That is what parts of countries, states, bodies of
water, etc. they're in.

1. Beringia

The former land bridge between what are now Russia and Alaska

3. Doggerland

One of the geographical areas in the BBC shipping forecast, somewhere
offshore in the region of the British Isles

5. Macaronesia

Islands in the Atlantic Ocean west of Africa, such as Cabo Verde and the Canary Islands

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On 7/25/25 12:04, Dan Tilque wrote:

Here are some geographic names that are a bit on the obscure side. All
you have to do is describe where these areas are in terms of more common geographic names. That is what parts of countries, states, bodies of
water, etc. they're in.

Note: I was pretty lenient on scoring. If you got in the right vicinity,
I gave credit.

1. Beringia

The area under the Bering Sea plus nearby parts of North America and Asia.

Joshua got this one.

This is one of those that are now under water but were land during the
ice ages. It made a land bridge between the continents that the original Americans came over.

2. Deccan Traps

Large Igneous Province (LIP) in Western India. An LIP is where humongous amounts of lava flowed out of the ground in a relatively short period of
time. Humongous here meaning about a million cubic kilometers. The
Deccan Traps are noteable because they happened at the same time as the Dinosaurs became extinct. In fact, the main competing theory to
Chicxulub about why that extinction happened was the Deccan Traps.
There's also a theory that the Deccan Trap flow was increased by
Chicxulub, since the two were approximately antipodal.

Etymology trvia: "trap" is from the Swedish word "trapp" meaning stairs.
The rock formations in places have a stairstep look.

Dan Blum got this one.

3. Doggerland

Southern part of what is now the North Sea, stretching from England to Denmark. Another Ice Age land.

Everyone (Erland, Joshua, and Dan Blum) got this.

4. Driftless Area

Area in southwestern Wisconsin plus nearby parts of adjacent states.
It's called Driftless because it has no glacial drift, which is
geologists' way of refering to various rocks and stuff left by glaciers
when they melt. So glaciers never got to this part of the state,
although they did to the rest.

5. Macaronesia

Several groups of islands in the eastern Atlantic. From north to south: Azores, Madiera, Savage Islands, Canaries, Cape Verde Islands.

Joshua got this one.

6. Palouse

Region of rolling hills in southwest Washington state plus a little bit
of Idaho.

7. Sahul (not the Sahel)

Ice age continent composed of New Guinea, Australia, Tasmania plus the
what are now the seas between them. Another ice age land.

Dan Blum got this one.

8. Salish Sea

Puget Sound up through the Georgian Strait.

Dan Blum got this one.

9. Sundaland

SE Asia mainland and western Indonesia, plus all the seas between them.
Yet another ice age land, since all those seas were above water back
then. I expect the name comes from the Sunda Strait.

10. Zealandia

Region of continental crust to the east of Australia. Mostly flooded,
(even during the ice ages) but New Zealand and New Caledonia plus other smaller islands are part of it. Sometimes called the eighth continent by geologists.


Scores:

Dan Blum: 4
Joshua: 2
Erland: 1

Congratulations Dan.
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