THE final straw in the long-running rivalry between Territorians and Southerners may have come in the form of a mapthat ignited a furious online debate.

In a bit of light humoured fun - something new we are trying that you wouldn’t normally expect from the always serious NT News - we created a map to illustrate how Territorians view the rest of Australia.

Every state was labelled as Southerners apart from Tasmania, which was labelled as ‘who knows?’

The map managed to garner over 300,000 views, 7000 likes, 1500 shares and 600 comments in under 24 hours - going down in the annals of NT News history.

Whoknowsians immediately flocked to the NT News Facebook to express their disgust at what they believe was an extreme misjustice.

“Go root your boot! I’m TAssy,” Andrew Devine wrote.

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It is not clear whether Devine is actually the physical embodiment of Tasmania but anything is possible that far south.

However, some Whoknowsians expressed gratefulness for actually being remembered for once.

Our East and West Southerner neighbours (Queensland and Western Australians) were infuriated at being included with the rest of the southerners.

Some even pointed out that our geography skills were lacking as Queensland apparently reaches further north than the Territory.

“Funny how there’s a section of QLD that is of a more NORTHERLY point,” Marty Mitchell posted.

Milton Manner even called Territorians hillbillies for insultingly calling Queenslanders southerners.

“Bloody outrageous!”

But as Territorian Steph Downes eloquently pointed out: “If you don’t get the point, you are a southerner. It’s about lifestyle more than geography!”

Next time we’ll make sure to refer to them by their full scientific name - “F***in’ southerners.”