Which Continent do you live in?

Which Continent do you live in?

  • North America

    Votes: 22 48.9%

  • South America

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Europe

    Votes: 19 42.2%

  • Africa

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Asia

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Australasia

    Votes: 3 6.7%

  • Antarctica

    Votes: 1 2.2%
  • Total voters
    45
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mogwaid

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You can post which country, I was just curious as to where most members post from.
 
hehe no i didnt, coz Australasia is the continent. Including New Zealand (best country ever 😛) and the smaller islands like Fiji etc. Australia is a country in that continent, but coz its the biggest, i guess they decided to call it Australasia.

Darn, I just realised, the results of the poll aren't showing! How do i change that?
 
Aussie again.
Be good when we get to see the polls again for threads like this.
 
mogwaid said:
hehe no i didnt, coz Australasia is the continent. Including New Zealand (best country ever 😛) and the smaller islands like Fiji etc. Australia is a country in that continent, but coz its the biggest, i guess they decided to call it Australasia.

Darn, I just realised, the results of the poll aren't showing! How do i change that?
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oh. well ive never heard of that before? interesting. i always thought that australia was the contintent. and then they referred to australia/nz/fiji etc as oceania? im lost haha.. ah well. x
 
...it was all so much simpler in the good old days, when I was a boy and there were only five continents...😉
 
I am from the USA. The state of Illinois matter of fact. The continent is North America.
 
Oh...I forgot to say earlier...I'm from Europe...the UK to be precise.
 
Europe, baby, UK...well, Northern Ireland to be presice, but that's still part of the UK. so many people seem to forget! lol
 
detroit, michigan, united states, north america
 
mogwaid said:
Strange, Since we were always taught at school, in both Australia and New Zealand when i lived there, that the continent was first called Australasia, then it changed to Oceania. Australia is just the biggest country in the continent.
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As I understand it the generally accepted definition of a continent goes something like this.

con·ti·nent1 (kŏn'tə-nənt) pronunciation
n.

1. One of the principal land masses of the earth, usually regarded as including Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
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However if you want to talk geology, there's this.

The great majority of maps now in use imply that the boundaries of continents are their shorelines. From the geological point of view, however, the line of demarcation between a continent and an adjacent ocean basin lies offshore, at distances ranging from a few to several hundred miles, where the gentle slope of the continental shelf changes somewhat abruptly to a steeper declivity. This change occurs at depths ranging from a few to several hundred fathoms (1 fathom = 6 feet) at different places around the periphery of various continents. See also Continental margin.

On such a basis, numerous offshore islands, including the British Isles, Greenland, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, New Guinea, Tasmania, Taiwan, Japan, and Sri Lanka, are parts of the nearby continent. Thus, there are six continents: Eurasia (Europe, China, and India are parts of this largest continent), Africa, North America, South America, Australasia (including Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea), and Antarctica.
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http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=continent&gwp=13

So again as I understand it, if you want to say Australasia, you must also say Eurasia, then it is clear you're using a geological context. It's kind of screwy, because people from the UK are of course going to claim to belong to the continent of Europe, even though technically they don't meet the criteria of the generally accepted definition where they would be part of a larger land mass. And if the definition is part of a single large land mass, why are Europe and Asia separate continents?
 
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