Re: OT: Renaming the continents

Nik Taylor wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Quite possibly, Australia
> > and Antarctica were also considered "Isolated" (altho' with S America
>being
> > "the Isolated South Continent", one's got to wonder what they then
>called
> > Antarctica), but I can't really remember.
>
>Maybe they considered those islands, using a larger cutoff point?
No idea. That'd require a third kind of islands besides shelf islands and
oceanic vulcanic islands, I guess.


                                                           Andreas

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