>>32981840Canonically it's no such thing.
"Rotation of the earth", to use your example, is not equal to the "rotation of the Earth". Earth is a world that also just means the ground/planet in general. In case you don't know how to Google:
earth
/ərTH/
2. the substance of the land surface; soil.
"a layer of earth""
If you went to Mars you could still feel the rotation of the "earth" in other words.
Now, it likely is another version of Earth because they mention real world places but who even knows then?
You canonically are a child who enters what you've learned about a Pokémon yourself/learned in your adventures.
You fill it out, you don't unlock it it just looks like you unlock it because game play and Nintendo. They're not going to want people sharing their in-game screenshots of entries about how the 11 - 16 year old PC saw a horde of Dugtrio come upon (pun fully intended) the girl next door.
So it could just be that the Pacific Ocean and whatnot are just myths like Atlantis or Eden.