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Originally Posted by Jellby
I've always learnt Oceania as the 5th continent, and Antarctica the 6th (the other 4 being Europe, Asia, Africa and America). Australia has always been a country (and an island/semi-continent) in my books. And you are right, it's more a geographic region than a continent in the sense of continental plate/platform, but if we are going to talk about land chunks, why are Asia and Europe separated? Where do Great Britain and Japan belong?
As I say, in my classification:
Great Britain is Europe, Greenland is America, Japan is Asia, Australia and Fidji are Oceania, the Canary islands and Madagascar are Africa...
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So you were taught that America is one continent, not 2? Interesting. I'm curious, when and where did you go to primary school? In the US in the mid '80s I was taught that there were 7 continents, and Australia was both a country and a continent. I'd like to know when that changed.
As for Europe and Asia, I agree. The division between the 2 is arbitrary. You could just as realistically divide Asia along the Himalayan Mountains. It makes about as much sense as a division at the Ural Mountains.