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Oceania is a geographical region not a continent. It's name suggests this as it is literally 'ocean' which by the very definition of a Continent can't be a continent. I think you will find Australia is both a country and a continent. The rest of Oceania are just islands.
Originally posted by tucothetyke:
Oceania is a geographical region not a continent. It's name suggests this as it is literally 'ocean' which by the very definition of a Continent can't be a continent. I think you will find Australia is both a country and a continent. The rest of Oceania are just islands.
Where were you educated?
I think that you'll find that Oceania is in fact a continent. If your referring to Australasia as a continent in it's own right then I think that you will find that your absolutely wrong. If that were true, where would you class American Samoa and the group of islands slightly North-West of Australia that aren't the Phillipines, and even New Zealand for that matter. In Asia... I don't think so.
I think that you'll find that Oceania is in fact a continent.
Oceania is a GEOGRAPHICAL REGION not a continent. Water can not be a continent. Landmasses are continents. They are two different things.
I live in New Zealand and we are in Oceania, but Australia is the continent. They renamed THE REGION Oceania from Australasia. Australasia is a defunct term now.
Look the continents of the world up on Wikipedia (or any encyclopedia for that matter) and I think you will find thate the Earth has 7 continents. North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia & Antarctica.
Originally posted by tucothetyke:
<BLOCKQUOTE>I think that you'll find that Oceania is in fact a continent.
Oceania is a GEOGRAPHICAL REGION not a continent. Water can not be a continent. Landmasses are continents. They are two different things. </BLOCKQUOTE>
I'm not saying the Pacific Ocean or any other water bodies are in Oceania. What I'm saying is that Australia, New Zealand and all the other islands make up the continent of Oceania. I've looked up an encyclopedia and it's proved me right.
The confusion is the difference between a geographical continent, eg a land mass like Australia and what is commonly called a continent by people, eg Oceania being the continent of Australia + NZ + random island nations.
But isn't water on land itself. Next you'll be saying Anatartica isn't a continent because it's ice! Even though, the things they do in America, it migt not be there for long. God, wsn't Columbus a bastard!
Wow... I'll hold my hands up then. Australia is a continent. I honestly didn't think that I was wring on this one. But it just goes to show that there are debatable continents (North and South America being regarded as The Americas, and Europe and Asia, Eurasia). But still, I enjoyed that.
I think the moral of this topic clearly is... don't buy Canadians
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