What is your favourite continent in Celestia?

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What continent looks the best in Celestia?

North America
3
19%
South America
2
13%
Asia
2
13%
Australasia
3
19%
Europe
4
25%
Africa
1
6%
Antarctica
1
6%
 
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What is your favourite continent in Celestia?

Post #1by Sum0 » 22.02.2003, 22:19

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!
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Post #2by marc » 26.02.2003, 03:15

Australia is a continent just by itself is it not?
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Post #3by Guest » 26.02.2003, 04:17

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 ? :lol:
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Post #4by Thilo » 26.02.2003, 13:26

I guess that something is classified as continent, if it has its own tectonic plate reasonably big enough. And Australia is big.
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Post #5by marc » 27.02.2003, 01:18

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.
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Post #6by Sum0 » 27.02.2003, 19:28

Australasia - Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, also known as Oceania.
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