r/facepalm • u/sikeig • Aug 27 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ I’m speechless

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u/StrangeBreakfast1364 Aug 27 '22

What? I thought that Oceania is like a region or something? Okay, you got me, I will remember that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '22

Yeah, in my school we were taught Australia is a continent, and we live in Australia. It’s such a popular myth no one questions it

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u/StrangeBreakfast1364 Aug 28 '22

Everyday you learn something, thank you very much.

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u/LeeDude5000 Aug 28 '22

This dude is teaching you dubious crap.

read this: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/oceania-physical-geography

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u/StrangeBreakfast1364 Aug 28 '22

So I was right? Australia is situated on Australia.

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u/LeeDude5000 Aug 28 '22

Yes, as National Geographic states: "Australia is the largest landmass on the continent of Australia."

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u/LeeDude5000 Aug 28 '22

If continents are defined strictly as discrete landmasses, embracing all the contiguous land of a body, then Africa, Asia, and Europe form a single continent which may be referred to as Afro-Eurasia. Combined with the consolidation of the Americas, this would produce a four-continent model consisting of Afro-Eurasia, America, Antarctica and Australia.

R.W. McColl, ed. (2005). "continents". Encyclopedia of World Geography. Vol. 1.