Is there a continent in history where Britain never went too?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Why is Zealandia a continent?

[Anomalocaris]

Why is Zealandia a continent?

Because it was large, larger than Australia, larger than India.   It is made of continental types of crustal rock compositions.  It’s ongoing volcanic activities are still of the continental type.  Geologists generally recognize it as structurally a continent that rifted away from Antarctica at the same time as Australia, and then separated from Australia later.   It was still mostly above water until 23 million years ago.   The only thing that made it different now from other bonafide continents is it is mostly submerged.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

By that argument North America should be two continents?

[Anomalocaris]

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.

[brewer]

Lamuria.

Continent that really existed?  Zealandia.

I think the Brits went there, they just didn't know that they did.

[Apollo]

It's a human journey of exploration and conquest throughout the history. As humans overcame challenges of space and time, the farther and quicker they went. From Alexander the great to Romans to British empire to humanity at large in 60's walking on the moon.

Just a perspective.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

By that argument North America should be two continents?

Not sure how that follows.  

North America was once blessed with a shallowish sea straight up the middle. If we can quibble one way we can quibble any way.

[Anomalocaris]

Not sure how that follows.  

North America was once blessed with a shallowish sea straight up the middle. If we can quibble one way we can quibble any way.

The continental geological structure was always continuous under the Western Interior Seaway, So the land on both sides was clearly part of the same geological structure.     In fact they were so continuous they were not even delineated by any active fault structure. 

Zealandia is separated from Australia by oceanic abyssal plain.   The continental structure does not run under the ocean and continue on the other side.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Nah.

[downbeatplumb]

Short answer, no.

Long answer:

Given the chance we'd do it all again!