RE: Is there a continent in history where Britain never went too?
December 4, 2020 at 11:22 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2020 at 11:35 am by Anomalocaris.)
(December 4, 2020 at 11:10 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: By that argument North America should be two continents?
Not sure how that follows.
Geographically Zealandia is not considered a continent or part of any other continent because it is currently not dry land.
Had ocean level dropped 3000 feet and it had been largely above water, it would still be separated from any other continent by oceanic abyssal plain on all sides. It is structurally not connected to any other continent, So it would probably still not be considered part of another continent. At best it might have had the same relation with Australia as South America to Central America.
It is also huge in its own right, about half the size of Canada and 3 times larger than any other disconnected land mass on the earth. So no one was going to call it an island.
