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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we are distinguishing continents by pure geography, there should be North America and South America. And there wouldn't be Australasia, there would be just plain Australia. [/quote]

Okay, I could see North and South America being separated. The strip of Central America is quite small. But they should then have two completely different names.  Not North and South something.  Its like if there was North EurAsia and South EurAsia.  Europe/Russia/China etc being north and Africa being South.  They also have a small strip of land that connects them.

For whatever reason in my head, I don't like Australia as a continent name.  I don't think it should be the country name and continent name.  It leaves out the surrounding close by islands that way.  While if we went by the strict definition of large land mass this would work, but I'm thinking more as the large land mass and also encompassing the close islands around it. The islands should also have some identification with a continent to place themselves geographically and one from New Zealand shouldn't have to say they are Australian to identify themselves by which continent they are from.

Just musings...

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