boemWorld race to the seventh continent: the Moon
Is Antarctica no longer a continent?
From the article:
the Russians consider Eurasia a single continent
well now i wonder, how are Europe and Asia considered separate continents?
DemeCultural reasons.
The original definition is also pretty vague: Europa is first used in a geographic context in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, in reference to the western shore of the Aegean Sea.
Of course they fucking do.
A broken clock…
I mean, look at the globe with satellite view and tell me where one ends and the other begins.
I mean, the Ural mountains are a pretty solid demarcation line, I agree it’s not as tidy as an ocean but still.
India is a separate subcontinent as well, but we don’t question that.
India is on a separate tectonic plate to the rest of Europe / Asia.
IMO, if you’re looking at continents purely from a geographic/geologic frame of mind, dividing them up based on what plate they are on makes the most sense. But, that would not take into account cultural/political/legal boundaries, all of which are probably more important day-to-day.
Look at a satellite view and tell me Urals separate continents but not the Himalayas, the Rockies or the Atlas.
You could argue the Atlas and Rockies are too close to the edge, so the land they separate is too small to be a continent