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Old 04-11-2009, 11:38 AM   #20
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Australia is no longer a continent

The seventh continent is now called Oceania, and it is basically the chunk of Pacific Ocean south and west of Hawaii. Am I the only one who sees the absurdity of calling a body of water a continent?

I'm not going to delete references to it. While it's not a continent, I do think it's a useful geographic term. But I did edit some of the country listings to fix a redundancy like:

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Location: Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean between...
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