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You can travel east forever without reaching an edge

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Unlike north and south, which abruptly terminate at frozen wastelands, moving east is an eternal loop. Because the planet spins continuously on a fixed axis, you can head eastward for the rest of eternity and never hit a definitive boundary. It is an endless geographic treadmill.

You can travel east forever without reaching an edge
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