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Originally Posted by Nate the great
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?
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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...