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Baclava

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2. into the abyss

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Mon Mar 17, 2014, 11:19 AM

Mar 2014

if you watched the show 'Draining the Oceans', you know what we call islands are the tippy tops of undersea mountains

Grand Bahama Bank, which rises more than 2 miles high from the Atlantic abyssal plain.
The Bahamas Islands are but the tips of these massive structures

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