• blarghly@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Yeah. The Greeks also didnt live anywhere near the arctic and couldn’t have possibly known of the existance of polar bears there. They just named the north “the arctic”, aka, the place the bear constellations point. Then, the antarctic is “the opposite of that”