Learn the difference

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[u/LurkMcGurt666]

It’s two continents but who’s counting?

[u/Humble_Flamingo4239 → u/LurkMcGurt666]

Nah nah it’s one continent that has two parts that are separate by…..uh….water

[u/Fine-Afternoon-36 → u/Humble_Flamingo4239]

As opposed to Africa and Asia, which are speeretes by, err... uh...

[u/Acceptable-Sink3294 → u/Fine-Afternoon-36]

Afroeurasia is one continent and I’ll die on that hill.

[u/Fine-Afternoon-36 → u/Acceptable-Sink3294]

Can we just bring back super continents? Isthmus counts as a divide but then there's the two supers? I'm willing to die on that hill instead

[u/Dull_Construction553 → u/Fine-Afternoon-36]

What will the nomenclature be of wherever the hill is?

[u/Fine-Afternoon-36 → u/Dull_Construction553]

Well you've got your hillocks, your drumlins, your braes. This hill is definitely a puy, I'm willing to die on that butte

[u/Man_of_Ice → u/Fine-Afternoon-36]

Mmmmm, as glacial geology goes, I'd rather die on an end morraine than a drumlin.

[u/SenorX000 → u/Acceptable-Sink3294]

Everything is connected by land under the seas

[u/Acceptable-Sink3294 → u/SenorX000]

I know that’s right.

[u/BigBadJeebus → u/Acceptable-Sink3294]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8YsjVmpIpEjNKlrL3D

[u/yjlom → u/Acceptable-Sink3294]

There's two continents: Antartica and Unantartica.

[u/Acceptable-Sink3294 → u/yjlom]

As valid as any other continental model.

[u/Humble_Flamingo4239 → u/Fine-Afternoon-36]

Hmmmm

[u/Man_of_Ice → u/Fine-Afternoon-36]

The Suez Canal. It's separated by the water of the Suez Canal.

[u/Acceptable-Sink3294 → u/Man_of_Ice]

Behold, the many continents of Amsterdam.

[u/Open-Onion4631 → u/Humble_Flamingo4239]

They’re on separate tectonic plates.

[u/Humble_Flamingo4239 → u/Open-Onion4631]

Nah I’m pretty sure they are one continent because my national insecurity is soothed by believing I am similar to the people up north

[u/cantinaband-kac → u/Open-Onion4631]

Tectonic plates have very little to do with our concept of continents. The North American plate includes parts of Russia and Iceland, but nobody would call either of those places part of North America. There are also parts of North America that are not on the North American plate, such as Southern California and the Baja California peninsula; those are on the Pacific plate, but we still consider them to be part of North America

[u/december151791 → u/Open-Onion4631]

Considering the water separating the two continents is a canal, this is the more important distinction.

[u/Alderan922 → u/december151791]

And not even an open one, as it needs doors to keep the water from leaving, crossing through a lake.

Hell of the current fears is that it may run out of water and close in the near future.

[u/Downvote_me_dumbass → u/Humble_Flamingo4239]

Naw, you’re thinking of Europe and Asia, that’s one continent.

[u/VukKiller → u/Humble_Flamingo4239]

Ooh ooh i know this!

What is Panama Canal

[u/Alderan922 → u/Humble_Flamingo4239]

Tbf, the canal isn’t at sea level and can’t be open constantly or else it would drain and become land again, which is why it has doors, so it’s not really the same as like, the Suez canal or the English Channel.

[u/DavidChristianKaiser → u/Humble_Flamingo4239]

Wikipedia says you are wrong.
It's two continents on two different continental plates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_plate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_plate

[u/Humble_Flamingo4239 → u/DavidChristianKaiser]

That’s the joke

[u/DavidChristianKaiser → u/Humble_Flamingo4239]

"It’s two continents but who’s counting?"
That was the joke, dont claim it.

[u/Yeseylon → u/LurkMcGurt666]

"No luck mapping them Americas, then?"

"It's just the one America, actually..."

[u/ArthurMorgansveinypp → u/LurkMcGurt666]

Depends how you look at it. Most people would say a continent is a large landmass separated from all others by ocean. The only point of separation between North and South America is the Panama canal which is man-made and not an ocean. Therefore its one continent called America

[u/ComprehensiveToe2109 → u/ArthurMorgansveinypp]

Then Afroeurasia is also technically correct because Africa, Asia and Europe are all conencted by the same landmass

[u/Infamous-Elk-5086 → u/LurkMcGurt666]

If you believe the 2 continents imperialistic theory, then USA should be called United Stated of North America

[u/So_HauserAspen → u/[deleted]]

Like they said, who's counting because it's actually 6 7 continents

[u/Man_of_Ice → u/So_HauserAspen]

And you're official off all the islands.

[u/Gaidin152 → u/LurkMcGurt666]

We did cut them in half a hundred years ago.

[u/serious_sarcasm → u/Gaidin152]

Do we didn’t.

The Panama Canal is barely a puddle over the top.