I'm going to postulate a bold and unintuitive hypothesis: the world has more southfacing coastline than northfacing coastline (in total distance). Do you agree or disagree? Discuss!
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What if we placed many random (position, radius) circular land masses on the surface of the earth? Those in the northern hemisphere would have a greater proportion of their coast facing south than north (and vice versa). Then we just place more of them in the north.
I don't know how accurate a model "many random dots" are for Earth's landmasses, but we do at least have more landmass in the north.
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even if à mass is mainly in an hemispheres, the shape is important. Look at South America : its in South hemisphere, but the main part of its coastline are south facing. That being said, most continental mass seemed to look likes South America...
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