I always thought the name of the continent was Oceania but everyone just called it Australia because it's the biggest and most known country there. Just like people call Netherlands for Holland because of the province. But if Australia is the correct name and since the continent includes New Zealand, you can actually correctly claim you're in Australia while in New Zealand. They'd probably get pissed anyway..
The real question is why is Asia a continent? It was the European who defined the continents, so having Europe as a continent is a given, but why did they cut out the rest of the European continent and name it Asia?
Because it has countries in it. Australia has states and territories in it so therefore its a country. Europe has countries such as Italy, Greece, France, Spain, Germany and Portugal and so on.
Greenland is not - totaly - an own country. Its a country within the kingdom of Denmark. Thus, Danish military forces uphold a precence in Greenland and patrol the Island. It is gradually more and more self-governing, but Denmark hold on to the monetary politics and the defence of the island.
It had the status of colony from 1814 of 1953 where it got the status of a county, home rule in 1979 and self rule from 2009. The hold on monetary politics comes from the block grant of 526 million USD every year.
Solitude Wrong, self-rule does not mean independence. They have their own parliament and decides certain matters themselves, but on a larger scale they are still a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Self-rule is often a step towards independence, but at present economy doesn't allow for independence. Their status is comparable to Iceland from 1918 - 1944. They gained self-rule in 1918, but not independence until 1944.
First of all, the only reason people ask this question is because they're too used to looking at the Mercator Projection, which stretches the global map into a perfect rectangle and makes Greenland look bigger than Australia. In reality, of course, Greenland is nowhere near the size of Australia. Second, and I can't stress this enough since the video got it wrong, Greenland *is not* a country! It is legally part of Denmark.
Greenland is a country. It's territory of Denmark, but that's like saying anywhere that has been part of the Commonwealth is a country of Great Britain.
Solitude Even if Greenland is its own country, which the internet will never agree on, Australia IS an island and IS bigger than Greenland by a significant amount. Therefore Greenland IS NOT THE BIGGEST ISLAND.
As an Australian I must say that during my kindergarten years I was taught that Australia is the worlds largest island and it's smallest continent. And now that I am in my 60's I can say it's such a shame that this guy didn't know that.
@Provocateur When muslim riots broke out in Sydney over a youtube video in Janurary I think, news groups and the political parties spoke out against them right after it happened. I'm glad I live in a cuntry where nobody is afraid to speak the truth.
+Wyatt Farmer "even if it should be." There is no reason to consider Oceania a continent. If there is one part of the definition of continent that is consistent, it's that Continent refers to a land mass as opposed to islands.
For all the people talking about how "Australia" is not a continent and it is in fact "Oceania" are right but "Australia" can also be right it just depends on how you define it. As explained in this video the continents are not really well defined. I think most children are now taught it is "Oceania" however because this encompasses all land in the region.
And as Greenland is almost 3 times bigger than the next biggest island (New Guinea), the question why we cut off continental status after Australia, and not after Greenland, remains valid.
The map proportions happen due to trying to put a sphere on a flat surface, thus distortions. So, the further away from the equator the more the distortions, the larger it appears.
0:38 I have never seen all of Oceania labelled 'Australia'. That is just incorrect. Either Australia is a continent and the Pacific islands aren't part of any continent, or more logically Oceania is the continent encompassing Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands. I am Australian btw. Also, it's illogical to consider Australia an island and a continent simultaneously. If it were both, then Afro-Eurasia, America, and Antarctica would be islands too.
Also, his continent of Australia at the beginning counted half of New Guinea as on the continent, thanks to the political boundary between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Well yes but again the Australian continent includes Tasmania and many other smaller islands, and that makes the mainland an island on the Australian continent
"Nation" doesn't necessarily mean "independent country". And within Denmark, Greenland is autonomous in many areas and, together with (European) Denmark and the Faroe Islands, a constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark (kind of like England or Scotland within the UK).
I'd love to visit Greenland and Iceland sometime. Simon, would you look into making a video explaining how we have mapped out the tectonic plates? Thanks and I love your videos. Jeff
anyone else always just thought an island was a single country/state/region entirely surrounded by ocean, and a continent was a large land mass divided into multiple countries? thats so much simpler
I feel this video missed addressing the reason this question gets asked so often to begin with. Most people think Greenland is much larger than it really is, due to projection distortion. Fire up Google Maps. Look at Borneo, which is intersected by the equator. Greenland is less than three times the size of Borneo. Look at the Democratic Republic of Congo. Greenland is smaller than that!
Mr. Whistler, it's this easy, and it can be shown by using quantitative methods: Make a list of continents and islands (all seven continents, and you can include as many islands as you want, but the 10-20 largest will do) and then rank them by their geographic area (square kilometers, square miles, whatever you want). This is the independent variable (X-axis). Then take the logarithm of the geographic area and plot that as the dependent variable (Y-axis). The results are clear. The seven continents cluster together, there is a significant gap, and then the island form a nice, somewhat orderly line. Only Greenland stands out from that line; but yet when plotted in this way it is closer to New Guinea than it is to Australia. Quantitatively, then Australia is more similar in geographic size to other continents while Greenland is more similar to other islands.
The "tectonic independence" issue isn't a factor at all, considering we didn't even accept the idea of separate tectonic plates until the 20th century.
In Brazil we also call Australia just the country and Oceania the continent, just like some people here pointed out. It's funny to see that a lot of those people are from Australia. I think the first time I heard people from other countries calling Australia a continent was when I was 18 and it feels so weird.
It just depends on what language you speak in English its been generally called a continent the whole time but in many languages like Portuguese the continent is Oceania and due people from other countries learning English they say its Oceania and in some places its court on
@Rathtrainer like the comment so he may possibly do it, I just thought it would be interesting considering all the uses for it, and many misconceptions.
you said Antarctica was bigger than Europe and Australia. Is that because that study measures the ice as well? If you take off the ice that covers Antarctica it's not really a continent, it's just a bunch of islands that make up an archipelago. So if you take away the ice and only measure the square miles of land I wonder if it really is the fifth biggest, or would it be actually the smallest?
Depending on who you ask, the size of the continent isn't determined by the amount of land above sea level, it includes the continental shelf as well. It also depends on the geological nature of the crust, continental crust is both thicker than and chemically different from oceanic crust. So it would still be a continent, just a partly submerged one. Also, if the ice melts the land will rise - it's subsided quite a bit under the weight of the ice sheet - and eventually more of it will be above sea level.
soundcloud rapper Greenland is owned by Denmark but not a part of it (so it is a country)and Australia is a continent Oceania is just the islands that’s around it
Oceania is a REGION. Not a continent. The Australian continent features most, but not all, of the nation of Australia and no other nations. Tasmania is an Island separate from the continent. I really don't know where this move to say Islands are part of continents is coming from... The only time this is true is islands on lakes on continents.
Huh... You're right about the Aussie government, but Merriam-Webster: 3. : mainland 4 a : one of the six or seven great divisions of land on the globe b capitalized : the continent of Europe -used with the Oxford 1. Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia, Antarctica). Maybe common usage in Australia differs from the US and UK (it sometimes does), but neither of these (the kind of go-to for the US and UK respectively) gives room for Continent to include islands, and doing so doesn't make sense. There's a difference between a continent and a continental shelf. I mean, language changes, but this seems like a giant conflation of terms that gets in the way of comprehension to me.
As it turns out, nGon, I'm only counter-correcting people because this IS disputed and there was no need for the original correction. The "It's called Oceania now" thing is not universal. It's not what the Aussie government does, for instance. I don't really care if you call islands "continents" (I mean, I do in the same way I can't handle corn on a pizza and the thought makes me gag, but I really don't care if someone eats whatever the hell they want on a pizza) but I do care when you try to "correct" people on something so disputed, particularly when the thing they're "correcting" makes MORE sense than the thing they're claiming. I believe the "Contiguous land mass" definition makes the most sense, since that's the most common usage of the term in American, Canadian, and UK English (can't speak for Australia as I said). In the end it is all arbitrary, but people "correcting" someone undeservedly is a bugbear of mine.
I am Australian, but I find calling the whole area Australia or Australasian continent really silly. Whoever called it that, an Aussie or Brit, must of thought that only Australia was important. I like the term 'Oceania' because of its inclusiveness but it also refers to the island, ocean lifestyle which most people from this area enjoy.
He talks about "Australia" and a map of "Australasia" is shown. Australia is a specific country where "Australasia" is a region, this video needs to be corrected and re-posted. The region of "Australasia" or more commonly known these days as Oceania is certainly NOT a continent.
+Battleneter I laughed at video point 0:39 - 0:40 where while he's talking about the country I live in & was raised in - *Australia* he adds to the map New Zealand, Papua new guinea, Solomon Islands & Fiji. *Thankfully* he didn't leave out Tasmania like Kendall Rae did with 1 of her her videos {in the thumbnail} of her volg channel with her husband about a package I sent her from Australia.
I am a Kiwi that resides between Australia and New Zealand, pretty sure I have this right lol. They REALLY muddled this up. They should not be showing any picture of the region Oceania/Australasia when talking about the continent of Australia, completely irrelevant :P
Battleneter I wonder if you get your information in only english speaking pages... for several countries and languages Oceania is a continent... there are more countries and languages that see Oceania as continent than languages and countries that see Australia as continent!!! Is not wrong saying that Asutralia is a continent if you are an english speaker... but that doesn't mean it is the true for everyone!!! In my case I learned that Oceania is a continent in school, high school and in College... I graduated in Geography, I have a title in geography, and one of the first thing we learn is that many countries teach geography in a way that makes their country, zone or language as more important... That is why in Latin American countries they separate Central America from North America, or that in some countries people barely know anything about any country outside their own countries. Also we were told that USA has the worst education in geography (when it is not USA) in school and high school, I have seen sone of their geography books and I get surprised how terrible it is... College is another story (they have a good geography and they use Austalia as continent too, but they makes you understand that for other cultures Australia is not a continent)... a friend of mine told me that, in her first geography class in the college that she went in USA, they told her to forget everything she learned about geaography in school, because many information young people get about the world outside USA is not that good...
Well, technically the continent Australia and the region Oceania are not the same thing. I know what you mean about different cultures and stuff, but there is still a definition.
That's actually a super-valid question, and here's some of the equations behind it. This is going to turn into an essay, but it's my birthday so I'll type what I wanna! (You don't have to read it.) Those values were based on realpolitik considerations in the "world wars" era. North America has the advantages of isolation by wide seas that makes it less vulnerable to invasion, it has more easily accessed and self-supplying bulk mineral/metal/coal/oil reserves, and its agricultural capacity is simply astounding (and protected in the interior). Basically, it's all about being in the temperate zone with no unfriendly flanks to guard against. Also, compared to Africa, North America is more culturally consistent in times of conflict, switching suddenly from the democratic chaos of splintered self-interests into a unified badass military-industrial "sledge hammer" (as Churchill put it) until its enemies are dealt with. Afterwards, it goes back to "hippy vs puritan" infighting to amuse itself as it evolves with influences from around the globe. Africa, on the other hand, is a patchwork of mutually distrustful and internally warring small regions; and it is chopped into quadrants by vast, difficult natural formations like the Sahara Desert, the Congo Rain Forest, and the East Rift Valley. No Risk-like imperial power, from within or without, has ever managed to unify more than a small fraction of it. Historically, it takes enormous effort to hold or develop even one section of that most-varied and factionalized continent. It has awesome natural resources and various truly amazing peoples, but the logistical problems of dealing with its geology, ecologies, and cultural issues erode its value as a strategic asset. Finally, North America is armed to the freaking teeth and always has been, with state-of-art weapons and solid training in many or most civilians. This makes it like a giant Switzerland (minus the neutrality) or a Sparta that can call on its population to swell the ranks of professional soldiers very quickly and effectively. This "well-regulated militia" (which means "trained & armed civilians") is the nasty surprise experienced by anyone who has been short-sighted enough to piss them off, or unlucky enough to be in their way when someone else did. Most of that applies mostly to the USA, but Canada is also a vast, super-rich resource reserve that is inherently resistant to conquest/invasion, so its people and products could fuel a great deal of military or imperial capacity if they were so inclined. Timber, oil, silver, gold, grains, iron, copper, meats, and so on are diverse and abundant across its various regions that would be most difficult for an invading force to take over quickly enough to avoid being iced in by the deadly cold of winter that the locals are equipped and accustomed to survive and work/fight through. Even the USA itself, in the height of its "manifest destiny" days, backed off at the notion of trying to conquer and hold Canada and made compromise territory treaties multiple times. How harsh is that? Then there is Central America... it doesn't seem like much on the map or as a world imperial power, but it is also chock-full of natural defensive barriers and crucial resources (oil, rubber, metals) that are close enough to seaports to be more efficiently extracted than in most of Africa, despite the mountainous terrain. Also, the people there have no problem with fighting continual revolutions and schism wars against what they see as oppressors or rivals. After the Spanish empire collapsed, no outsider has been able to unify this region. In fact, some of the mountainous Maya zones have never been conquered at all (having ass-kicked both the Aztecs and the Spanish back downhill), and they still use their indigenous languages & culture. That's some tough folk! Basically, if you are playing Risk and you manage to unify North America under your banner, you have a massive resource capacity that is hard to attack and produces lots of what it takes to project power across the world of that era. The actual USA only controls about a third of it directly, yet it has become the most powerful global empire in history. Resources + buffer zones + development + adventurous & defensive cultures & landscapes = recipe for a juggernaut. PS: There's also this thing about the internal workings of the circumpolar Bear-cult and Eagle-mind, but that's a spiritual thing and not immediately comparable to the more physical considerations... at least... supposedly... in the moment... maybe... berserkergangers abroad, anyone?
Shut up. North America is more points because it has 9 territories to Africa's 6. Africa can be defended from 3 adjoining territories while North America has to spread out across the entire continent to defend it. This makes North America significantly harder to fully capture and defend.
It sounds weird but Europe is technically a peninsula of the Eurasian Continent, with Russia accounting for most of the landmass of the continent. As a country, it's called Australia, as a continent, it's called Australasia whereupon it also incorporates New Zealand and Papua New Guinea which sit on the same tectonic plate.
Actually there are 20 Australia Christmas Island Cocos-Keeling Islands Cook Islands Fiji French Polynesia Kiribati Nauru New Caledonia New Zealand Niue Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Islands Solomon Islands Tokelau Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Wallis & Futuna Western Samoa Admittedly most of these are tiny island nations no one has heard of though
I was including them, the report sayiny that we hit 24 population was including all supposed permanent residents at the time and is steadily increasing.
Love your videos, but I have to disagree on the definition of a "continent". We've only known about plate tectonics for a few decades, whereas continents have been judged (determined?) for a significantly longer amount of time.
I think it is also important that you have Australia as an Island, and Australia (or Oceania) as a continent. The first only includes the island Australia, while the latter also includes plenty of other islands.
Oceania is a area like Asia, its NEVER been claimed to be continent. This video should not be showing pictures of Oceania, New Zealand for example sits on a different tectonic plate to Australia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania
I got a question. Watching the tectonic plates map, I saw one half of Iceland in the North American plate. So that makes Iceland the only country that can be called American and European country in the world??? Thanks for asking or for making a video about it.
The government of Australia says Australia is a continent. The term is disputed and incredibly vague, so sorry to say there are going to be different views on it. I only care when dumbasses think they need to "correct" someone who doesn't have their view, especially if they view they take makes less sense than the one they're "correcting". If you want to say the continent of Australasia, more power to you. Just don't think your dumbass way of saying it needs to be forced onto everyone else.
Martin Kuliza, then every continent is an island or part of a greater continent. North America is a subcontinent of America. Europe, Asia, India and Africa are subcontinents of the world island that is surrounded by ocean. The nation of Australia is on its own continent and continental plate. Antarctica is on its own continental plate but no country, nation, body politic occupies Antarctica. Look at the National Geographic or Google maps that show the parts of the continents that are submerged. Continental plates are thick, like 100+ miles to the magma while the ocean floor plates are thin, like 3-5 or so miles to the magma.
@Al Grayson 1. Like i said... THIS IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE 2. Like i Said... I LIVE HERE... so i know, so it's not up for debate 3. You disproved your own point You initially said... "Then every continent is an islande or part of a greater continet" You then disproved your own argument by mentioning North america LMFAO ..... Mate... BOTTOM LINE Like i said Australia is a continent, and Island and a country it's that simple you either get it or you don't i'll leave you with it
Also, Australia isn't a continent it's actually a country. Many people get this confused, yes Australia is part of a continent and that continent is called Australasia or Oceania, which also includes New Zealand and 22 other countries. So if you call Australia a continent you are wrong.
No. You moron. It's both. Oceania is just a term for a region, like Middle East. A continent is a single land mass. Why are there so many idiotic commenters on this particular video?
Greenland is an autonomous region. It got its own provisional government in 2009. However, the area is still heavily reliant on funds from Denmark and many of the laws in Greenland are carried over from Denmark.
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Australia is an island, not a continent. I think you're referring to Oceania, which is Australia, New Zealand and a bunch of smaller islands in between and around, such as Samoa. Greenland is part of the North American continent as it is just off the coasts of the island groups of northern Canada.
I remember an Indian doctor paid my family a visit once. The heat was up and as he walked through the door he commented: "Phwoar! It is hotter in here than it is on the Indian subcontinent!"
No a continent is a large continuous land mass. New Zealand and Australia are not connected and they are further from each other than Russia and Alaska so by using your logic they should also be one continent. Australia is the continent Oceania is the region which Australia is in. Not every country needs to be in a continent.
How many continents exists depends also in when you are from. Growing up in Central America we learn that it is a continent, as Geologically has a different story that North and South America. Also for some, Australia is not a continent, but instead is part of the “Oceanic Continent” that includes New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. So even in the matter of what is a continent and how many are there, not everybody seems to agree.
Why cant you consider australia an island when the country itself consist of more than 1 island not to mention the other island countries in oceania which is the continent you should be talking about
A question, by including New Guinea, and new Zealand should you not be saying Australasia instead of Australia?? I also noticed that for New Guinea you have only included the Papua New Guinea side of the island of New Guinea, and have not included in the Indonesian side: Why is that so?
I have question, when i saw this video title i thinked (I'm from germany) where is "greenland", because! In german "greenland" is called "grönland" BUT "greenland" translated means "grünland". So why do we call it "grönland" instead of "grünland"
@Today i Found Out the image at 0:38 is incorrect australia is ONLY the Mainland and Tasmania all the rest are not part of Australia, YOUR MAP IS INCORRECT
The Seven Continent Model that I learned referred to it as Oceania not Australia, which makes sense, seeing as how if you were to be talking about Australia the continent you'd have to clarify that you're not talking about the country but the continent which refers to Australia, Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia.
Isn't the continent called Australasia not Australia? The continent encompassing more than just Australia - such as New Zealand and other nearby island countries?
When I was traveling I met a woman from Guatemala who insisted that the Americas were 1 continent and that only people from the US thought they were separate. It was a very confusing conversation that I still think of any time anyone brings up continents.
Back in the 1960s when i went to school, we were taught that one of the criteria for continents was that they had to have two or more climate zones, yet strangely enough, Antactica was also called a continent.
An interesting fact is that in Sweden, we bunch Australia and a bunch of other islands into a continent we call "Oceania", named after one of the smaller islands in the continent.
the term Australasia is to include Australia and the the other islands as a part of ASIA because that is geographic zone they are in Oceania keeps Australia NZ and the other Islands as a Sub-set with in the Asian region. The name Oceania is more the fact that 3 oceans meet in the area than all the islands are connected.
Australia is not it's own continent- it is part of Oceania (so long as you think of continents as broad regions of then world). If it was, what continent would all the Pacific Islands (Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands, Fiji, etc.) belong to?
Also, isn't Greenland quite small in reality? They just stretch it because the Earth is round but we can't have spherical maps. It's also why Russia and Canada look that much bigger.
Already Aristotle and Ptolemy theorized about a southern landmass, Terra Australis Incognita (unknown land of the South). When captain Cook was sent out on his first journey, the reason was to find this postulated "continent". Since it was expected, what was found obviously had to be a continent and it is still considered to be just that.
Honestly the division between Europe and Asia was more confusing to me since they are connected and share much of the same tectonic plate. Also while Russia resides mostly within Asia, they are very European as well.
Tectonic plates stem from cratons. Further clarification on the conceptualization of Continental land masses is given by geological record. Tectonic plates have a substantial history of splitting and fusing, including a process known as subduction which has been chiefly responsible for the orogeny activity that builds mountain chains and causes earthquakes. Tectonic plates vary greatly in size, and are quantified as being several dozens of plates.
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the real question is why is it so hard to infect greenland Q_Q
Derso ikr, how am I supposed to kill the world with my disease if they never get infected ffs
Don't forget those fucks in Madagascar.
*One person coughs
*SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING*
Derso OMFG I GET THE REFERENCE xD
Funny how they don't have any airports...
Vincent S. dont leak it. Thats what keeps it fun.
I always thought the name of the continent was Oceania but everyone just called it Australia because it's the biggest and most known country there. Just like people call Netherlands for Holland because of the province.
But if Australia is the correct name and since the continent includes New Zealand, you can actually correctly claim you're in Australia while in New Zealand.
They'd probably get pissed anyway..
Yeah
wait, people call the Netherlands "Holland"?
@@asheep7797 yes
@@asheep7797 yes
@@wyattscott4208 no
Reclassify Greenland as a dwarf continent.
Then you should also reclassify India
Nah and nah
@@heimdall1973 India doesn't even make sense as its own continent? It's part of Asia!?
@@ryanboscoe9670 India is sometimes referred to as a subcontinent.
Why do Asia and Europe make sense as two continents rather than just one?
Chad Warden it’s on it’s own tectonic plate, India is actually classed as a subcontinent
i never thought about flora and fauna when considering should it be a continent. Thanks for the info. Subscribed.
More important question: Why is Europe a continent?
The real question is why is Asia a continent? It was the European who defined the continents, so having Europe as a continent is a given, but why did they cut out the rest of the European continent and name it Asia?
@@smarte1111 Does this European have a name?
@@smarte1111 someone feels attacked lol
Because it has countries in it. Australia has states and territories in it so therefore its a country. Europe has countries such as Italy, Greece, France, Spain, Germany and Portugal and so on.
@@smarte1111 Asia is a continent
Greenland is not - totaly - an own country. Its a country within the kingdom of Denmark. Thus, Danish military forces uphold a precence in Greenland and patrol the Island. It is gradually more and more self-governing, but Denmark hold on to the monetary politics and the defence of the island.
you mean colony?
It had the status of colony from 1814 of 1953 where it got the status of a county, home rule in 1979 and self rule from 2009.
The hold on monetary politics comes from the block grant of 526 million USD every year.
England is a country. Basque country is a country. Greenland is a country.
Greenland is - totaly - its own country.
Solitude Wrong, self-rule does not mean independence. They have their own parliament and decides certain matters themselves, but on a larger scale they are still a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Self-rule is often a step towards independence, but at present economy doesn't allow for independence.
Their status is comparable to Iceland from 1918 - 1944. They gained self-rule in 1918, but not independence until 1944.
First of all, the only reason people ask this question is because they're too used to looking at the Mercator Projection, which stretches the global map into a perfect rectangle and makes Greenland look bigger than Australia. In reality, of course, Greenland is nowhere near the size of Australia.
Second, and I can't stress this enough since the video got it wrong, Greenland *is not* a country! It is legally part of Denmark.
Greenland is a country. It's territory of Denmark, but that's like saying anywhere that has been part of the Commonwealth is a country of Great Britain.
Okay, so I guess the Yukon, Nunavut, and the North West Territory are all their own countries.
Commonwealth =/= territory.
WillStrop2008 nerd!
On 21 June 2009, Greenland gained self-rule, NOT LEGALLY PART OF DENMARK. BIGGEST ISLAND ON EARTH! BITCHES!
Solitude Even if Greenland is its own country, which the internet will never agree on, Australia IS an island and IS bigger than Greenland by a significant amount. Therefore Greenland IS NOT THE BIGGEST ISLAND.
As an Australian I must say that during my kindergarten years I was taught that Australia is the worlds largest island and it's smallest continent. And now that I am in my 60's I can say it's such a shame that this guy didn't know that.
Isn't it Oceania though?
Bung The Booce Oceania is a geographical region and is not considered a continent as a whole (even if it should be).
@Provocateur When muslim riots broke out in Sydney over a youtube video in Janurary I think, news groups and the political parties spoke out against them right after it happened. I'm glad I live in a cuntry where nobody is afraid to speak the truth.
Bung The Booce I think we know what he found out today
That's what I was taught in school (in Australia).
+Wyatt Farmer "even if it should be." There is no reason to consider Oceania a continent. If there is one part of the definition of continent that is consistent, it's that Continent refers to a land mass as opposed to islands.
I enjoy when you make videos that answer the questions I didn't even know I wanted to ask :)
keep making fun videos
For all the people talking about how "Australia" is not a continent and it is in fact "Oceania" are right but "Australia" can also be right it just depends on how you define it. As explained in this video the continents are not really well defined. I think most children are now taught it is "Oceania" however because this encompasses all land in the region.
Because the map projections we use are wrong and Greenland is tiny compared to Australia
836,000 sq miles compared to alittle less than 3 mil sq miles, only about a 3rd of the size.
Vikings488 "square mile" is not influenced by projections.
And as Greenland is almost 3 times bigger than the next biggest island (New Guinea), the question why we cut off continental status after Australia, and not after Greenland, remains valid.
The map proportions happen due to trying to put a sphere on a flat surface, thus distortions. So, the further away from the equator the more the distortions, the larger it appears.
Aquarius1011 , it depends on the map projection used.
Some preserve the relative areas, but at the expense of shape & directional accuracy.
I was always taught that Australia was an island residing in the continent of Australasia/Oceana
#oceania
I thought that most Australians consider that they do live on an island. I've certainly heard some say that they consider Australia to be an island.
0:38 I have never seen all of Oceania labelled 'Australia'. That is just incorrect. Either Australia is a continent and the Pacific islands aren't part of any continent, or more logically Oceania is the continent encompassing Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands. I am Australian btw.
Also, it's illogical to consider Australia an island and a continent simultaneously. If it were both, then Afro-Eurasia, America, and Antarctica would be islands too.
Also, his continent of Australia at the beginning counted half of New Guinea as on the continent, thanks to the political boundary between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Never have I heard anyone call the continent of Australia as Oceania. Oceania is a region.
kerfies I'm an Australian and never knew Oceania is a region
Well yes but again the Australian continent includes Tasmania and many other smaller islands, and that makes the mainland an island on the Australian continent
Oceania is a region that includes the continent of Australia maybe this helps
Greenland is not a nation. it's a territory of Denmark. *pushes glasses up like a snob*
Nerd.
Justin Ward thanks for pointing out the obvious.
Dammit, someone beat be to it. *Puts away map*
"Nation" doesn't necessarily mean "independent country". And within Denmark, Greenland is autonomous in many areas and, together with (European) Denmark and the Faroe Islands, a constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark (kind of like England or Scotland within the UK).
the same is with austrial and america ... territory is same as nation . kid
I'd love to visit Greenland and Iceland sometime.
Simon, would you look into making a video explaining how we have mapped out the tectonic plates?
Thanks and I love your videos.
Jeff
anyone else always just thought an island was a single country/state/region entirely surrounded by ocean, and a continent was a large land mass divided into multiple countries? thats so much simpler
North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and EURASIA is what I was taught
I was always taught that Oceania/Australasia was the continent and Australia was just a country.
you were lied too
Paula well I was taught that Australia was the only continent that was also a country.
@@a.vvlogz7306 Maybe you should have learned how to spell :)
It's not. Oceania is a continent and Australia is part of it
and america is 1 continent. and antarctica is just ice.
LIES
@@a.vvlogz7306 nope
@@teamawesomeness7137 antarctica isn't just ice, it's a huge landmass covered with ice.
@@Flaeren it's not even a real place.
I feel this video missed addressing the reason this question gets asked so often to begin with. Most people think Greenland is much larger than it really is, due to projection distortion. Fire up Google Maps. Look at Borneo, which is intersected by the equator. Greenland is less than three times the size of Borneo. Look at the Democratic Republic of Congo. Greenland is smaller than that!
Mr. Whistler, it's this easy, and it can be shown by using quantitative methods: Make a list of continents and islands (all seven continents, and you can include as many islands as you want, but the 10-20 largest will do) and then rank them by their geographic area (square kilometers, square miles, whatever you want). This is the independent variable (X-axis). Then take the logarithm of the geographic area and plot that as the dependent variable (Y-axis). The results are clear. The seven continents cluster together, there is a significant gap, and then the island form a nice, somewhat orderly line. Only Greenland stands out from that line; but yet when plotted in this way it is closer to New Guinea than it is to Australia. Quantitatively, then Australia is more similar in geographic size to other continents while Greenland is more similar to other islands.
The "tectonic independence" issue isn't a factor at all, considering we didn't even accept the idea of separate tectonic plates until the 20th century.
In Brazil we also call Australia just the country and Oceania the continent, just like some people here pointed out. It's funny to see that a lot of those people are from Australia. I think the first time I heard people from other countries calling Australia a continent was when I was 18 and it feels so weird.
It just depends on what language you speak in English its been generally called a continent the whole time but in many languages like Portuguese the continent is Oceania and due people from other countries learning English they say its Oceania and in some places its court on
Next video idea!
"Why do we put hydrogen peroxide on our cuts"
Hydrogen Peroxide is used for sterilization. Or are you asking how it works?
Yes how it works, and where it comes from..etc
@Rathtrainer like the comment so he may possibly do it, I just thought it would be interesting considering all the uses for it, and many misconceptions.
Sure. Sounds like it might make a good video.
next video. should the englis queen wear a burka in londonstan
you said Antarctica was bigger than Europe and Australia. Is that because that study measures the ice as well? If you take off the ice that covers Antarctica it's not really a continent, it's just a bunch of islands that make up an archipelago. So if you take away the ice and only measure the square miles of land I wonder if it really is the fifth biggest, or would it be actually the smallest?
Depending on who you ask, the size of the continent isn't determined by the amount of land above sea level, it includes the continental shelf as well. It also depends on the geological nature of the crust, continental crust is both thicker than and chemically different from oceanic crust. So it would still be a continent, just a partly submerged one. Also, if the ice melts the land will rise - it's subsided quite a bit under the weight of the ice sheet - and eventually more of it will be above sea level.
VERY INFORMATIVE! THANX.
Greenland is a island of denmark and Australia is not a continent, its a country witch is a part of Oceania
soundcloud rapper Greenland is owned by Denmark but not a part of it (so it is a country)and Australia is a continent Oceania is just the islands that’s around it
soundcloud rapper I’m Australian it is BOTH dumb ass
Nope Oceania is a region that includes the continent of Australia 😐
It's actually up to eight continents: Zealandia.
Zealandia is is a sunken chunk of land and if it didn’t sink then New Zealand would be a bigger country.
Is the continent of Africa considered an island?
africa is a part of the continent afro-eurasia, and not an island in any way, nor is it a continent
+7lllll
There are 7 continents, Africa being one of them. And have you heated of the suiz canal?
Hey You no because the suez is not very large and is man made and you can cross it so Asia, Africa and Europe are all still technically connected
Nope look at egypt and israel.
africa is too big to be an island. the largest island is antarctica.
So basically the answer is: "just because."
If i ever were so lucky to be a guest on QI, i would binge on this channel first....
A lot of pepole don't see australia as a country but oceania wich includes New Zealand and the mico countries
Was. Australia was a continent. It's called Oceania now
Or australaisa ( mind the spelling )
Oceania is a REGION. Not a continent. The Australian continent features most, but not all, of the nation of Australia and no other nations. Tasmania is an Island separate from the continent. I really don't know where this move to say Islands are part of continents is coming from... The only time this is true is islands on lakes on continents.
Somebody get this man a trophy
Huh... You're right about the Aussie government, but Merriam-Webster:
3. : mainland
4 a : one of the six or seven great divisions of land on the globe
b capitalized : the continent of Europe -used with the
Oxford
1. Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia, Antarctica).
Maybe common usage in Australia differs from the US and UK (it sometimes does), but neither of these (the kind of go-to for the US and UK respectively) gives room for Continent to include islands, and doing so doesn't make sense. There's a difference between a continent and a continental shelf.
I mean, language changes, but this seems like a giant conflation of terms that gets in the way of comprehension to me.
As it turns out, nGon, I'm only counter-correcting people because this IS disputed and there was no need for the original correction. The "It's called Oceania now" thing is not universal. It's not what the Aussie government does, for instance. I don't really care if you call islands "continents" (I mean, I do in the same way I can't handle corn on a pizza and the thought makes me gag, but I really don't care if someone eats whatever the hell they want on a pizza) but I do care when you try to "correct" people on something so disputed, particularly when the thing they're "correcting" makes MORE sense than the thing they're claiming.
I believe the "Contiguous land mass" definition makes the most sense, since that's the most common usage of the term in American, Canadian, and UK English (can't speak for Australia as I said). In the end it is all arbitrary, but people "correcting" someone undeservedly is a bugbear of mine.
Because Greenland isn't its own tectonic plate, there, saved you 5 minutes
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neither is australia. it's part of the indo-australian plate
@@teamawesomeness7137 there no such thing as indo -australia plate. www.columbia.edu/cu/moment/v0/083195/geo.html
@@wakakabravo7998 your face
@@teamawesomeness7137 yes i have good looking face. thank you.
The quality of your videos has shot up recently, I really love this channel!
I am Australian, but I find calling the whole area Australia or Australasian continent really silly. Whoever called it that, an Aussie or Brit, must of thought that only Australia was important. I like the term 'Oceania' because of its inclusiveness but it also refers to the island, ocean lifestyle which most people from this area enjoy.
He talks about "Australia" and a map of "Australasia" is shown. Australia is a specific country where "Australasia" is a region, this video needs to be corrected and re-posted. The region of "Australasia" or more commonly known these days as Oceania is certainly NOT a continent.
+Battleneter I laughed at video point 0:39 - 0:40 where while he's talking about the country I live in & was raised in - *Australia* he adds to the map New Zealand, Papua new guinea, Solomon Islands & Fiji. *Thankfully* he didn't leave out Tasmania like Kendall Rae did with 1 of her her videos {in the thumbnail} of her volg channel with her husband about a package I sent her from Australia.
I am a Kiwi that resides between Australia and New Zealand, pretty sure I have this right lol. They REALLY muddled this up. They should not be showing any picture of the region Oceania/Australasia when talking about the continent of Australia, completely irrelevant :P
Battleneter I wonder if you get your information in only english speaking pages... for several countries and languages Oceania is a continent... there are more countries and languages that see Oceania as continent than languages and countries that see Australia as continent!!!
Is not wrong saying that Asutralia is a continent if you are an english speaker... but that doesn't mean it is the true for everyone!!!
In my case I learned that Oceania is a continent in school, high school and in College... I graduated in Geography, I have a title in geography, and one of the first thing we learn is that many countries teach geography in a way that makes their country, zone or language as more important...
That is why in Latin American countries they separate Central America from North America, or that in some countries people barely know anything about any country outside their own countries.
Also we were told that USA has the worst education in geography (when it is not USA) in school and high school, I have seen sone of their geography books and I get surprised how terrible it is...
College is another story (they have a good geography and they use Austalia as continent too, but they makes you understand that for other cultures Australia is not a continent)... a friend of mine told me that, in her first geography class in the college that she went in USA, they told her to forget everything she learned about geaography in school, because many information young people get about the world outside USA is not that good...
Technically Australasia is a sub-region of Oceania, which is a large geographic region.
Well, technically the continent Australia and the region Oceania are not the same thing. I know what you mean about different cultures and stuff, but there is still a definition.
The real question is why North America gives more points than Africa in Risk.
That's actually a super-valid question, and here's some of the equations behind it. This is going to turn into an essay, but it's my birthday so I'll type what I wanna! (You don't have to read it.) Those values were based on realpolitik considerations in the "world wars" era. North America has the advantages of isolation by wide seas that makes it less vulnerable to invasion, it has more easily accessed and self-supplying bulk mineral/metal/coal/oil reserves, and its agricultural capacity is simply astounding (and protected in the interior). Basically, it's all about being in the temperate zone with no unfriendly flanks to guard against.
Also, compared to Africa, North America is more culturally consistent in times of conflict, switching suddenly from the democratic chaos of splintered self-interests into a unified badass military-industrial "sledge hammer" (as Churchill put it) until its enemies are dealt with. Afterwards, it goes back to "hippy vs puritan" infighting to amuse itself as it evolves with influences from around the globe.
Africa, on the other hand, is a patchwork of mutually distrustful and internally warring small regions; and it is chopped into quadrants by vast, difficult natural formations like the Sahara Desert, the Congo Rain Forest, and the East Rift Valley. No Risk-like imperial power, from within or without, has ever managed to unify more than a small fraction of it. Historically, it takes enormous effort to hold or develop even one section of that most-varied and factionalized continent. It has awesome natural resources and various truly amazing peoples, but the logistical problems of dealing with its geology, ecologies, and cultural issues erode its value as a strategic asset.
Finally, North America is armed to the freaking teeth and always has been, with state-of-art weapons and solid training in many or most civilians. This makes it like a giant Switzerland (minus the neutrality) or a Sparta that can call on its population to swell the ranks of professional soldiers very quickly and effectively. This "well-regulated militia" (which means "trained & armed civilians") is the nasty surprise experienced by anyone who has been short-sighted enough to piss them off, or unlucky enough to be in their way when someone else did.
Most of that applies mostly to the USA, but Canada is also a vast, super-rich resource reserve that is inherently resistant to conquest/invasion, so its people and products could fuel a great deal of military or imperial capacity if they were so inclined. Timber, oil, silver, gold, grains, iron, copper, meats, and so on are diverse and abundant across its various regions that would be most difficult for an invading force to take over quickly enough to avoid being iced in by the deadly cold of winter that the locals are equipped and accustomed to survive and work/fight through. Even the USA itself, in the height of its "manifest destiny" days, backed off at the notion of trying to conquer and hold Canada and made compromise territory treaties multiple times. How harsh is that?
Then there is Central America... it doesn't seem like much on the map or as a world imperial power, but it is also chock-full of natural defensive barriers and crucial resources (oil, rubber, metals) that are close enough to seaports to be more efficiently extracted than in most of Africa, despite the mountainous terrain. Also, the people there have no problem with fighting continual revolutions and schism wars against what they see as oppressors or rivals. After the Spanish empire collapsed, no outsider has been able to unify this region. In fact, some of the mountainous Maya zones have never been conquered at all (having ass-kicked both the Aztecs and the Spanish back downhill), and they still use their indigenous languages & culture. That's some tough folk!
Basically, if you are playing Risk and you manage to unify North America under your banner, you have a massive resource capacity that is hard to attack and produces lots of what it takes to project power across the world of that era. The actual USA only controls about a third of it directly, yet it has become the most powerful global empire in history. Resources + buffer zones + development + adventurous & defensive cultures & landscapes = recipe for a juggernaut.
PS: There's also this thing about the internal workings of the circumpolar Bear-cult and Eagle-mind, but that's a spiritual thing and not immediately comparable to the more physical considerations... at least... supposedly... in the moment... maybe... berserkergangers abroad, anyone?
Christopher Wong because blacks dont work
Christopher Wong because in terms of military benefit it is almost infinitely more valuable
Shut up. North America is more points because it has 9 territories to Africa's 6. Africa can be defended from 3 adjoining territories while North America has to spread out across the entire continent to defend it. This makes North America significantly harder to fully capture and defend.
It's probably because the game is mostly American.
No I have never wondered that, but I will watch and learn.
Simon! I have a very important question! How do the TH-cam commercials get chosen for each video? Is it completely random or what?
It sounds weird but Europe is technically a peninsula of the Eurasian Continent, with Russia accounting for most of the landmass of the continent. As a country, it's called Australia, as a continent, it's called Australasia whereupon it also incorporates New Zealand and Papua New Guinea which sit on the same tectonic plate.
Is Greenland a country? I thought it was just owned by Denmark
until 2009.
Aggu Kristian Self rule ≠ Independence
isnt australia a country? Oceania is the smallest continent
No, Oceania is a continent. It's disputed though. Not really sure why :/
Australasia is a continent, oceania is a region in said continent, and Australia is a country in said region.
Lewis Conroy Australasia is only 2 countries.
Lewis Conroy I disagree, Australia is a continent. Oceania (include nz and Pacific Islands) and Australiasia (nz and png) is a region.
Actually there are 20
Australia
Christmas Island
Cocos-Keeling Islands
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands
Solomon Islands
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Wallis & Futuna
Western Samoa
Admittedly most of these are tiny island nations no one has heard of though
The population counter on Australia is wrong. We have as of 2016 roughly 24 million people. Please do more research before stating incorrect facts.
angus. no its not you didnt count the native abbos
I was including them, the report sayiny that we hit 24 population was including all supposed permanent residents at the time and is steadily increasing.
yes with a lot of muslims on the way..
yes, a lot more
I would say giving us a figure of "over 22 million" seems fine accuracy wise.
Interesting viewpoint & explanation. Thumbs up!
To locate Australia in the South Pacific is to disregard the two other oceans it lies between - the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean.
Australia is an island also
Wrong
Africa too, and wait America also a continent. Oh wait Africa too
As a Filipino i'm proud we have our own tectonic plate
Gavin Herrera lol
Gavin Herrera nigga stfu
Jacklyn Yeh they close enough
Gavin Herrera Proud of something you didn't earn?
@eminemishh, I don't think you know what pride is.
Its Oceania
its Austraila
Love your videos, but I have to disagree on the definition of a "continent". We've only known about plate tectonics for a few decades, whereas continents have been judged (determined?) for a significantly longer amount of time.
I think it is also important that you have Australia as an Island, and Australia (or Oceania) as a continent. The first only includes the island Australia, while the latter also includes plenty of other islands.
No, I never wondered why Australia is a continent because that would be Oceania.
Oceania is a area like Asia, its NEVER been claimed to be continent. This video should not be showing pictures of Oceania, New Zealand for example sits on a different tectonic plate to Australia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania
and i havent wonder that oceania is even a thing!?!?!?! because in Austraila and the rest of the world i learnt that Austraila is a continent.
it's Oceania not Australia
its the other way around
In Australian schools they teach that the continent is called 'Oceania' and Australia is not an island *and* a continent
surfie007
In New Zealand schools they teach that Australia is a continent and a country. New Zealand is considered not to be on a continent.
You went to a stupid school then. A continent is a large continuous land mass surrounded by ocean, a bunch of islands does not meet that definition.
If you look underwater, Australia is connected to Papua New Guinea and a few Indonesian islands as well
Arrgghh By that logic North and South America should be one continent and so should be Europe, Asia and Africa
They are.
I got a question. Watching the tectonic plates map, I saw one half of Iceland in the North American plate. So that makes Iceland the only country that can be called American and European country in the world??? Thanks for asking or for making a video about it.
Yes, it sits on the plate boundary and in places you can actually see the faults that separate them on the surface.
As has been pointed out below, you missed addressing the fact that the Mercator Projection makes Greenland look several times its actual size.
Our schools teach "Oceania" as the continent that Australia is part of, along with New Zealand, etc
I think that's how it should be. Why leave countries continentless?
@@Hello-qd3uy What about Hawaii?
@@stevenhill7487
What about it?
@@Hello-qd3uy You said you don't think countries should be continentless, what about Pacific Ocean countries or Hawaii (before bought?)?
@@stevenhill7487
Yeah that's what I'm saying. These countries (including Hawaii) should be apart of a continent.
Guess what? Australia the country isn't a continent
Yes it is. Oceania is a region and Islands are not on continents.
The government of Australia says Australia is a continent. The term is disputed and incredibly vague, so sorry to say there are going to be different views on it. I only care when dumbasses think they need to "correct" someone who doesn't have their view, especially if they view they take makes less sense than the one they're "correcting". If you want to say the continent of Australasia, more power to you. Just don't think your dumbass way of saying it needs to be forced onto everyone else.
@pay to win
Guess what, I"m Australian, and You're an idiot
Australia is a Continent and an Island
Martin Kuliza, then every continent is an island or part of a greater continent. North America is a subcontinent of America. Europe, Asia, India and Africa are subcontinents of the world island that is surrounded by ocean. The nation of Australia is on its own continent and continental plate. Antarctica is on its own continental plate but no country, nation, body politic occupies Antarctica.
Look at the National Geographic or Google maps that show the parts of the continents that are submerged.
Continental plates are thick, like 100+ miles to the magma while the ocean floor plates are thin, like 3-5 or so miles to the magma.
@Al Grayson
1. Like i said... THIS IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE
2. Like i Said... I LIVE HERE... so i know, so it's not up for debate
3. You disproved your own point
You initially said...
"Then every continent is an islande or part of a greater continet"
You then disproved your own argument by mentioning North america LMFAO .....
Mate... BOTTOM LINE
Like i said
Australia is a continent, and Island and a country
it's that simple
you either get it or you don't
i'll leave you with it
Also, Australia isn't a continent it's actually a country. Many people get this confused, yes Australia is part of a continent and that continent is called Australasia or Oceania, which also includes New Zealand and 22 other countries. So if you call Australia a continent you are wrong.
No. You moron. It's both. Oceania is just a term for a region, like Middle East. A continent is a single land mass. Why are there so many idiotic commenters on this particular video?
every country is part of a continent. except greenland. my flag sticker book says that greenland is the only country not a part of any continent.
every country has to be part of a continent and no country can be on its own continent.
it you call Australasia a continent you are wrong btw AUSTRAILA IS A COUNTRY, CONTINENT AND ISLAND WHY DOESNT ANYONE GET IT I LIVE THERE!??!?!?!?!?!?
Greenland isnt real, its called Denmark to people who understand history and Geography
troll^ weak bait mate.
Aggu Kristian troll? Lol are you kidding? Greenland is apart of Denmark mate
Greenland is an autonomous region. It got its own provisional government in 2009. However, the area is still heavily reliant on funds from Denmark and many of the laws in Greenland are carried over from Denmark.
Yeah, California isnt real, its called the United States
california is not a country. it is a state.
why is smoke from a car doing a burnout white.. but when you set a tire on fire, the smoke is black?
Although I've only been watching this channel for a few months, having been directed here from TopTenz, I've found both channels to be very informative and beneficial. Thank you for the good work.
You're very welcome :-)
There are only two continents!!! America and Afroeurasia.
Daniel Morais says who?
Says nobody.
Pretty sure then, the earth is flat is his world.
There're also the continents Australia and Antarctica.
Antarctica is an archipelago covered in ice. Not a continent.
Australia is an island, not a continent. I think you're referring to Oceania, which is Australia, New Zealand and a bunch of smaller islands in between and around, such as Samoa. Greenland is part of the North American continent as it is just off the coasts of the island groups of northern Canada.
america is 1 continent,but other than that great comment.
its not, its a country in Oceania!!!
good video
very useful info
I remember an Indian doctor paid my family a visit once. The heat was up and as he walked through the door he commented: "Phwoar! It is hotter in here than it is on the Indian subcontinent!"
BULLSHIT América it's an only continent, not two diferent, what about Central América, thanks to them North and South América are connected
carlos fernandez Central America is part of North America
Creative Name bullshit x2 Central América emerged after of north América and then connected both SUB continents
carlos fernandez en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America
Creative Name you just can't make an argument using wikipedia
carlos fernandez Do you have a source for your side?
umm im Australian and uh Australia is an island and is never refered to as anything else here
~EmeraldDiscordian3 Agreed! The Continent is called Oceania and he talks as the whole of Oceania is these me country!
~EmeraldDiscordian3 you guys are drunk all the time anyway, nobody takes what you think seriously
Yes, Oz is like the drunk uncle that still wears leisure suits, you invite him but don't take anything he says seriously.
im aussie as well and we call it both
Nah mate, we always call Australia the island continent.
Australia isn't a continent, it's part of Oceania
No a continent is a large continuous land mass. New Zealand and Australia are not connected and they are further from each other than Russia and Alaska so by using your logic they should also be one continent. Australia is the continent Oceania is the region which Australia is in. Not every country needs to be in a continent.
alaska is nowhere near russia.
every country needs to be part of a continent except greenland. so,australia isn't a continent.
Team Awesomeness Alaska is 50 miles from Russia. Greenland is part of North America and Australia is a continent.
australia is a country. what continent is tuvalu part of?
How many continents exists depends also in when you are from.
Growing up in Central America we learn that it is a continent, as Geologically has a different story that North and South America.
Also for some, Australia is not a continent, but instead is part of the “Oceanic Continent” that includes New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
So even in the matter of what is a continent and how many are there, not everybody seems to agree.
Why cant you consider australia an island when the country itself consist of more than 1 island not to mention the other island countries in oceania which is the continent you should be talking about
A question, by including New Guinea, and new Zealand should you not be saying Australasia instead of Australia?? I also noticed that for New Guinea you have only included the Papua New Guinea side of the island of New Guinea, and have not included in the Indonesian side: Why is that so?
Greenland is my island. Australia is my continent
I always also Wondered why Asia and Europe are 2 Separate Continents, They seem to be basically connected
2:58 got a little confused as to why one plate just says "north america" and another just said plate
then i realized they're the same plate
smh
I have question, when i saw this video title i thinked (I'm from germany) where is "greenland", because! In german "greenland" is called "grönland" BUT "greenland" translated means "grünland". So why do we call it "grönland" instead of "grünland"
@Today i Found Out
the image at 0:38 is incorrect
australia is ONLY
the Mainland
and
Tasmania
all the rest are not part of Australia, YOUR MAP IS INCORRECT
When I saw that horribly inaccurate image of Antarctica at 0:35, I died a little inside.
For some reason greenland isnt a continent but europe and asia are different ones.
The Seven Continent Model that I learned referred to it as Oceania not Australia, which makes sense, seeing as how if you were to be talking about Australia the continent you'd have to clarify that you're not talking about the country but the continent which refers to Australia, Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia.
the region is actually called australia and new zealand,but other than that,great comment.
Polynesia and Micronesia are not part of the continent of Australasia/Oceania, most of them are on the Pacific plate.
Isn't the continent called Australasia not Australia? The continent encompassing more than just Australia - such as New Zealand and other nearby island countries?
Thank you! That was a question I had for a while.
When I was traveling I met a woman from Guatemala who insisted that the Americas were 1 continent and that only people from the US thought they were separate. It was a very confusing conversation that I still think of any time anyone brings up continents.
Back in the 1960s when i went to school, we were taught that one of the criteria for continents was that they had to have two or more climate zones, yet strangely enough, Antactica was also called a continent.
An interesting fact is that in Sweden, we bunch Australia and a bunch of other islands into a continent we call "Oceania", named after one of the smaller islands in the continent.
In Sweden Eurasia is one continent ...but Europe and Asia are two separate Världsdelar (roughly translates as "World Parts")
simon whistler, what lube do you use to keep your shiny dome so shiny? thanks.
thepieruler. his boyfriends..............
Well presented.
You've used a very nice camera for this video. Well done!
the term Australasia is to include Australia and the the other islands as a part of ASIA because that is geographic zone they are in
Oceania keeps Australia NZ and the other Islands as a Sub-set with in the Asian region. The name Oceania is more the fact that
3 oceans meet in the area than all the islands are connected.
Australia is not it's own continent- it is part of Oceania (so long as you think of continents as broad regions of then world). If it was, what continent would all the Pacific Islands (Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands, Fiji, etc.) belong to?
Also, isn't Greenland quite small in reality? They just stretch it because the Earth is round but we can't have spherical maps. It's also why Russia and Canada look that much bigger.
Map isn't good of size
Why did I try so hard and got so far but in the end it doesn't even matter?
Already Aristotle and Ptolemy theorized about a southern landmass, Terra Australis Incognita (unknown land of the South). When captain Cook was sent out on his first journey, the reason was to find this postulated "continent". Since it was expected, what was found obviously had to be a continent and it is still considered to be just that.
Honestly the division between Europe and Asia was more confusing to me since they are connected and share much of the same tectonic plate. Also while Russia resides mostly within Asia, they are very European as well.
Tectonic plates stem from cratons. Further clarification on the conceptualization of Continental land masses is given by geological record. Tectonic plates have a substantial history of splitting and fusing, including a process known as subduction which has been chiefly responsible for the orogeny activity that builds mountain chains and causes earthquakes. Tectonic plates vary greatly in size, and are quantified as being several dozens of plates.