World race to the seventh continent: the Moon

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World race to the seventh continent: the Moon
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Is Antarctica no longer a continent?

If I remember my middle school geography class correctly

  1. North America
  2. South America
  3. Europe
  4. Asia
  5. Africa
  6. Australia
  7. The Moon?
  8. Antartica
  9. Zealandia
  10. Lemuria
  11. Mu
  12. R'lyeh
  13. Laputa
  14. Southernmost America
  15. Spare Europe
  16. Indian Supercontinent
  17. Pangaea II- Electric Boogaloo
  18. Pluto (has been further downgraded from Dwarf Planet)
  19. Your Mom

Seems like it checks out to me.

From the article:

the Russians consider Eurasia a single continent

Of course they fucking do, sigh.

A broken clock...

I mean, look at the globe with satellite view and tell me where one ends and the other begins.

I mean, the Ural mountains are a pretty solid demarcation line, I agree it's not as tidy as an ocean but still.

India is a separate subcontinent as well, but we don't question that.

India is on a separate tectonic plate to the rest of Europe / Asia.

IMO, if you're looking at continents purely from a geographic/geologic frame of mind, dividing them up based on what plate they are on makes the most sense. But, that would not take into account cultural/political/legal boundaries, all of which are probably more important day-to-day.

Look at a satellite view and tell me Urals separate continents but not the Himalayas, the Rockies or the Atlas.

You could argue the Atlas and Rockies are too close to the edge, so the land they separate is too small to be a continent

A race, into space? A competition to see who can get to the moon first? Perhaps some sort of space race?

that leg of the competition is over. new leg is permanent outpost. so like a wild west movie but bouncy and chrome.

It’s a race to the South Pole. Beware the ice bergs and penguins