Started an argument with my much smarter wife because she said North and South America are not two separate continents. She was right, because continents are only defined by convention.

  • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    North and South America have the Darién Mountains/Darién Gap

    The Urals don’t even stretch all the way across the continental boundary

    Again: inconsistent.

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      1 year ago

      Hmmm… You’re right. It does feel a lot more arbitrary when you put it that way.