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Aren't the other seven continents the dominant land-mass on a separately defined tectonic plate? According to the article there's no agreed upon definition. I
by smoyer 10y ago
Aren't the other seven continents the dominant land-mass on a separately defined tectonic plate? According to the article there's no agreed upon definition.
In general, it's pretty easy to reclassify almost anything if you're willing to promote a new definition.
- MichaelMoser123 10y agoit might be a coincidence but all names of continents start and end with the same letter, the new one doesn't quite fit with this rule either.
- dogma1138 10y agoIt's easy just drop the last letter in New Zealand
- keithnz 10y agowhich is kind of how we say it. Kiwis are "optimized" speakers, we don't like words that make our mouth do too much work, so we optimize by smoothing out big changes. In this case it's common to hear the 'd' almost completely gone. Nu Zeelun :)
- lanna 10y agoOceania?
- legulere 10y agoIn many languages Europe is Europa because they got the name through Latin. Following this we could Latinize New Zealand with an -(i)a ending.
- ben-schaaf 10y ago> Aren't the other seven continents the dominant land-mass on a separately defined tectonic plate? The dominant land mass of the Eurasian plate is Eurasia.
- abalone 10y agoNo, not if you're counting Europe as a continent (which you are because you count seven). Europe's east boundary is political/cultural. It's rather silly how this is SO ingrained that even an article about the definition of continents includes Europe without comment. Even the map it cites draws Europe in a unique way, as a distinct labeled area but also as a part of Eurasia. Zealandia makes infinitely more sense as a continent than Europe. Also, I just found out that some textbooks in Europe teach that North and South America are the same continent. The irony.