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Even Greenland usually counts as North America unless you explicitly exclude it, as the cited Wikipedia article does: "L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed
by bloak 3y ago
Even Greenland usually counts as North America unless you explicitly exclude it, as the cited Wikipedia article does: "L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland."
But they didn't exclude Icecland! To a geologist, perhaps even parts of Iceland count as North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge#/media/File:Iceland_Mid-Atlantic_Ridge_map.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge#/media/File...
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThe geology is just a happy accident of naming. Continents aren't defined by plates. Europe and Asia share a plate, except for a bit of western Siberia that's on the North American plate. The Americas have 3-7 different plates, but only 1-2 continents.
- earthboundkid 3y agoContinents aren't defined by anything. https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Continents-Critique-Metageography/dp/0520207432/ref=sr_1_1 https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Continents-Critique-Metageograph...
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