At 02:48 PM 7/11/2000 +0900, you wrote:
>Gregg wrote:
>>
>> Also, Antartica is surrounded by water (ice) but isn't an island.
>
>That's probably because it's not "land" (well at least on the surface)
>...so Antartica should be known as isice :-)??
>
>> Gregg
Shoot, Gregg. Greenland just isn't that big. It's the distortion of those
Mercader maps that makes it look like 4/5 of the world's land mass is in
Siberia and the Northwest Territories (both big and lovely places, I'm
sure, but not quite that big).
Australia is a continent because Europeans settled there and said, "This
sucker's big and a long ways away and now we get to have a place called The
Bush so let's make a map." Nobody needs a map of Greenland except for the
lower part of it so you don't run into it or stuff that falls off of it.
Antarctica is a continent because it's close to Australia and they didn't
have any other way of thinking about it. Foxy will vouch.
Cheers,
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
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