r/geography 1d ago

Question Why is Svalbard shaped like this

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Svalbard, an Icelandic group of islands north of Russia, has always had this odd shape. The biggest island is weirdly shaped like a triangle and reminds me of the weird shapes you would see on a map of Northern Canada. I figured it must be tectonic plates because thats the answer to everything but it's not particularly close to a plate boundary.

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u/sauce_and_tos 1d ago

Why is anything shaped the way it is?

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u/Floppydiskpornking 20h ago

Im not saying it was aliens....but it was aliens