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What is your favourite continent in Celestia?
Posted: 22.02.2003, 22:19
by Sum0
I'd have to say South America, definitely - so many beautifully contrasting features. The mud brown Amazon and the green rainforest, the Andes and the lowlands, the lakes...
Of course, if your favourite continent is on another planet, just say!
Posted: 26.02.2003, 03:15
by marc
Australia is a continent just by itself is it not?
Posted: 26.02.2003, 04:17
by Guest
marc wrote:Australia is a continent just by itself is it not?
Good question ! When I were in school it was classed as such, but one wonders who decides these things and what is needed to be a continent ?
I mean, does size count ?
Are Ireland and Greenland etc ( not to mention the Kiwis) too small to count/classify.
Does that make them incontinent ?
Posted: 26.02.2003, 13:26
by Thilo
I guess that something is classified as continent, if it has its own tectonic plate reasonably big enough. And Australia is big.
Posted: 27.02.2003, 01:18
by marc
Thilo wrote:I guess that something is classified as continent, if it has its own tectonic plate reasonably big enough. And Australia is big.
If a continent is defined as a tectonic plate then Australasia is more correct.
Posted: 27.02.2003, 19:28
by Sum0
Australasia - Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, also known as Oceania.