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by mkl
536 days ago
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New Zealand is not part of a continent (unless you consider Zealandia [1] one, which few do). It's a bunch of islands in the middle of the sea, far from other land. It is part of named regions which sometimes substitute for continents when people want to divide up the world for some purpose like sports or economics, including Oceania and Australasia. Great Britain (the island) is very close to mainland Europe, and was directly part of it a few thousand years ago. The situation is totally different. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia |
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That's pretty much the definition of continent, right? The term continent is not scientifically based unless you want to argue that there are 16-ish continents and that South Georgia is it's own continent (and even tectonically its arbitrary since what we consider to be major, minor, micro are arbitrary).