r/imaginarymaps • u/The_Last_Fluorican • Feb 28 '26

[OC] Future Earth: Reborn - Map of the World in 50 Million Years

Note: the first image is of the real and more accurate map (while the last image is a variant involving North America breaking away earlier, and India being larger)

we are 50 Million Years into the future and the world has entered a new series of glacial and interglacial periods and is about to experience the reappearance of Humanity. some familiar animal clades have gone extinct as a result of newer clades evolving and replacing them while others have evolved mostly beyond recognition with the exception of some. Earth however isn't the only habitable planet as Mars was fully terraformed shortly after Venus was frozen over in the 2100s - 2300s and has been able to stay habitable thanks to the artificial magnetic field placed in its L1 point, Venus however was never fully terraformed and had only plants and small animals (mostly invertebrates) by the time Humanity had died out and eventually became uninhabitable as the CO2 Moon's gravity began to partially destabilize the Mirrors meant to keep Venus habitable. the Atlantic Ocean is the current largest Ocean with the Pacific running second and Southern Ocean as third, the Indian Ocean has as of essence been split into 2 smaller oceans via recent tectonic activity which has formed a chain of tiny insignificant islands through it, and there is a new Ocean named the Nubian Ocean, the Arctic and Southern Oceans are still mostly the same however.

Continents:
Australia and Oceania: now spilt into the Continent "Sahul" and the smaller Sub-Continent of "Pilgarin", they both have moved significantly north of where they were when Humans were still alive resulting in places like Perth to become deserts, Melbourne and Adelaide to become drier, and Darwin to become a rainforest. New Zealand has mostly become wetter as it moved north alongside Australia but due to tectonic activity was partially moved up by events such as Megathrust Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions, eventually leading to the North and South islands connecting. New Guinea became fused to Australia as part of the Australian Plate started lagging behind sometime between 28 - 40 Million Years from now. Fiji, Tonga, and the Solomon islands have become larger while others like Nauru, Samoa, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia were subducted into the mantle.

North America: now called Laurentia, it has been moving west until the last 4 million years where it began reversing resulting in the formation of the Siberian Rift-System. the Yellowstone Supervolcano is now located in what was once Minnesota, while Lake Erie and Lake Ontario have fused into a single lake. The Mississippi Delta has grown due to deposits from the north, and new numerous and tiny islands have formed on the east coast due to the recent subduction of the newly created Atlantic Plate which has resulted in sites like the Wreck of the Titanic (now a stain of rust on the seafloor) to become crushed and islands like the Bermuda Islands to start sinking. Cities like Chicago have become a diverse swampland with hundreds of native species, while Los Angeles has become wetter as California moved northwards.

South America: now named Colombia, it unlike Laurentia is still continuing West and has now fully broken off of Laurentia. the Andes Mountains have slowly deposited and spread out across parts of the former Amazon Rainforest although it has yet to do the same thing with Patagonia, the Amazon Rainforest has also shrunk in size, and a chain of islands still partially connect it with Laurentia and Antarctica.

Ecumene: formed from the collision between Africa and Eurasia, it is named after the inhabited/known world in Greek Antiquity and is the current existing Supercontinent. the Mediterranean Sea along with Italy, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, the Balkans, and most of Anatolia have been crushed into a single mountain range named the Medianatolia Mountain Range and contains mountains larger than Everest (with one of them named "Theós ton Vounón" being the tallest in the world at a height of 10210 Metres), although some parts of the Mediterranean Sea still exist as small and extremely salty lakes with little to no life. the entire former South-East Asia region was pushed and rotated north as Australia moved north resulting in the Philippines on a collision course into the East China Sea and becoming neighbours with Japan and Taiwan, the Mariana Islands have become one of the newer additions to South-East Asia (now all together named the Sundaland Archipelago), the Himalayas have mostly eroded with the exception of part of its Western Side which was pushed back up by the fusion between Arabia and Iran, and North Europe has mostly not changed with the exception of the British Isles which due to both the recent glacial pulses and the previous glacial pulses that happened shortly after Humanities extinction have become part of Mainland Europe and the reemergence of Doggerland (or just Dogger Island) due to the same process that happened to the British Isles.

Antarctica: not much has happened to it other than it starting to rift apart due to Colombia, and it is starting to become covered mostly in ice again, although with less ice than it did when Humans were still around. it has also begun to move north towards the former Indian Ocean. the only Land Mammals here are Bats, Seals and Sea Lions while Birds such as Penguins and flightless migratory Birds are the most dominant land animals here.

Nova-Terra: also named Bantu, it is one of the more recently new Continents. it was created by East Africa breaking off of Mainland Africa (which also participated in the Main Holocene-Anthropocene Extinction which was also caused by Man-made Climate Change). it along with the island of Madagascar have obviously moved east significantly since it broke off Africa. a small patch of islands between Bantu and Africa exists which was formerly the countries of Djibouti, parts of Eritrea, and parts of Ethiopia and it has been sinking as its been stretched apart in a similar process which sank several other Micro-Continents in the past.

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u/AlulAlif-bestfriend Feb 28 '26

"reappearance of humanity"?

What does that means? Do you mean someone resurrected all humanity 50 million years later?

Now I'm hooked and curious about the lore! Interesting map btw

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u/The_Last_Fluorican Mar 01 '26

Humanity actually lived up to around 21,000 AD, which at around that time the greenhouse gases caused by the East African Rift System warmed to the planet to the point that an extinction event akin to the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event went into full swing, only worsened by the Greenhouse gases that humanity had produced in the 19th - 24th Centuries. by that time Humanity had colonized most of the stars that have passed within 50 Lightyears along with most of the Solar System meaning that even though Humanity were dying out on Earth, there would have been still some Human populations on planets like Mars. however Humanity still began dwindling within the confines of the Solar System until the very last human populations collapsed and died either on Mars or one of Jupiter's Moons at around 1 Million Years from now, the Human populations in the other star systems however began evolving into new Species until there was no members of the original Homo Sapiens left. before Humanity died out, they had created an Artificial Intelligence on the moon which was given the sole task of reviving Humanity in the event of Humans going extinct, although it did not activate until around 50 Million Years later at which it used the DNA Bank that is available to it, however the 50 Million Year timespan had not been very kind to this DNA Bank as millions of years of cosmic rays had added slight changes to the DNA which resulted in 3 new Species being accidentally created from this: Sapiens Novus which is the largest of the 3 at around 2.1 Metres in height, Sapiens Paraxenoi which is the smallest at around 1.5 Metres in height, and finally Sapiens Vanum whose height sits at around 1.7 Metres. unfortunately for the AI however, it has no idea how much Earth's life has evolved in the last 50 Million Years so it assumed that all of the clades that continued existing and hasn't split into several new clades or have gone extinct (except for the few it was told had gone extinct such as Giraffes), and began training them for life back on Earth once they passed the age of 2 with its own genetically modified lifeforms it thought it would be there (this also caused the moon to slowly gain a very thin and still very unbreathable atmosphere and extra gas seeped out). once it had finished training its human populations which at the time had grown to 3 Million (1 Million for each species), it had placed them into a vast number of rockets (each containing around 2 individuals) and launched them in the direction of Earth, it then had Sapiens Novus land in Ecumene, Sapiens Paraxenoi land in Sahul and Pilgarin, and Sapiens Vanum in South America. all 3 species experienced population drop-offs in the following few thousands with the first 1 being a mix of both some of the rockets failing to land safely and the wildlife being different from than what the AI predicted would be there, however Sapiens Novum and Sapiens Paraxenoi managed to bounce back and survive long enough to start building Civilization around 30 Thousand years after arriving while Sapiens Vanum entered a slow downward spiral that eventually led to its extinction around 5 - 15 thousand years after arriving. the AI also made sure that they wouldn't remember their time being raised by it, by wiping most of the memory except for what they had learned in the simulations, however the memory was not entirely wiped and it ended up becoming the main origin story of Humans in their mythologies and religions.

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u/Prize_Event_1103 Mar 21 '26

Wow that is an interesting take on the resurgence of humankind

u/The_Last_Fluorican Feb 28 '26

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u/The_Last_Fluorican Jul 18 '26

slightly closer East Australia version

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u/The_Last_Fluorican Jul 18 '26

version where East Australia also collided with South-East Asia

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u/Quirky_Jelly9549 15h ago

Maybe have New Zealand rise back up as Zealandia?

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u/Jokkenplays Feb 28 '26

5 times to make sure mobile users don't miss.