Well done; prize jackpot to the woman in the lowermost icon!
It's based on a map of Antarctica without the ice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AntarcticaRockSurface.jpg):
As the caption says, this map does not take into consideration the fact that without the ice sea levels would be higher, but Antarctica, no longer weighed down by the weight of the ice, would rise up a long way itself.
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Date: 2006-06-20 08:36 am (UTC)It's based on a map of Antarctica without the ice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AntarcticaRockSurface.jpg):
As the caption says, this map does not take into consideration the fact that without the ice sea levels would be higher, but Antarctica, no longer weighed down by the weight of the ice, would rise up a long way itself.