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[Throne]

 

[Throne]

Woohoo, we've gotten visitors from all 6 of the inhabitable continents!

[kaobang]

6 ??  ;D

[NolandDarcy]

Europe, Asia, Austrailia, Africa, South and North Amrica = 6

Anyone know any Antarctic reseachers? get them to log in!

[Throne]

6 ??  ;D

I may be behind in the times, but I wasn't aware of any permenant residences in Antarctica.

[kaobang]

oh oki, it seems to be a cultural difference, in France we count America as one (no distinction south/north), maybe the reason of the 5 olympic rings.

[kaobang]

my bad I aplogize, from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia....tinent#_note-OU

there are so many models of continents, depends where you have been taught your geography, extract:

The 7-continent model is usually taught in Western Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, China and most English-speaking countries. The 6-continent combined-Eurasia model is preferred by the geographic community, Russia, Eastern Europe, and Japan. The 6-continent combined-America model is taught in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Iran and some other parts of Europe; this model may be taught to include only the 5 inhabited continents (excluding Antarctica).[19]

Oceania or Australasia may be used in place of Australia. For example, the Atlas of Canada names Oceania,[10] as does the model taught in Latin America and Iberia.[21][22] Australia can also be classed as the world's largest island rather than as a continent.

[Throne]

Thanks Kao, I never knew that....very interesting.

[Hamunces]

Is there no image showing for anyone else?

Also, I never got how Asia/europe were considered different continents, they're on the same land mass, as is Africa technically, although they did seperate from the continent via a man made trench to allow easier shipping routes to Britain from memory.

[Throne]

I guess we'll put up a new visitor map eventually.