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Originally Posted by Jellby
It's one of the "few large islands" plus other smaller ones 
The "traditional" count around here is 5: Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Oceania, and the 6th is Antarctica. I believe the count is rather arbitrary, just like the colours in the rainbow (if I remember correctly, Newton said they were 7 for "numerological" reasons). |
5 is certainly the number used in the Olympics of Greek origin. In the beginning the Greeks knew of 2 continents, Europe and Asia and there was this place called Lybia which they weren't sure about. Eventually deciding to call it 3 and Africa was born to civilization of the Greeks.