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pEg@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours ago

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pEg@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours ago
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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    I mean it’s greatly exaggerated on Mercator but it’s definitely not tiny.

    It’s bigger than Australia

    • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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      Fake map north should be pointing away from Antarctica dumbass. Read a book.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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      Does that mean Australia is not the biggest island

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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        Are continents islands?

        • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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          Not all continents, no. Islands are bodies of land surrounded by water on all sides, no? Wouldn’t Antarctica and Australia then qualify by that definition?

        • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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          There is no agreed upon definition or set of continents globally

          It might as well be a made up word

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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            the just be making up words now

            • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
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              All words are made up

              • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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                no i’m doesn’t

            • Town@lemmy.zip
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              What will they think of next?

              • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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                ook

        • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
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          The Australia thing is something we were taught in high school.

          • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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            I think I remember being told Greenland was the largest island, while Australia was a continent

            Something to do with tectonic plates

            • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Continents is a human made construct that’s later rationalized with tectonic plates and other criteria. Basically, people around the Mediterranean Sea divided the Mediterranean Coast into 3 parts and later extended this concept.

              • JayDee@lemmy.world
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                Yeah, but so is an island. It’s all human constructs. we see patterns and make up sounds for them.

                • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  Yes of cause

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              If you go by the geological definition, Australia is a continent, as is Zealandia. That’s right, New Zealand has equal geological footing with the entirety of Eurasia.

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                Probably why they keep getting left off maps, jealousy.

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      Hence “most other continents”

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        Yeah it’s smaller but not tiny

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    Friendly reminder that Europe is not a continent.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      If Europe isn’t a continent then neither is India!

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        It gets called The Indian subcontinent for exactly that reason but not Europe because of colonialism.

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