Hi John,
>>>Gregg giverson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx asks: what makes Australia a continent,
>>>Greenland an island? What is cutoff for island size?
>>>
>>>Que? How long is a piece of string? For all my life, including school,
>>>Australia has been called Island or Continent.
>>
>> AFAIK an island is called a continent whe it is so big that it does have a
>> distincive land climate. This is very true with Australia.
>>
>> Wiliam Wagenaar,
>> Middelburg NL
>
> ......should be Australasia which includes New Zealand. Australia on its
> own is not a continent.
>
> jh
>From what I remember, when I was a kid Australia was an island and a
continent. Admittedly I didn't learn much about New Zealand and never
thought to ask which continent it belonged to.
However I've been hearing the term "Australasia" a lot more in the past
15-20 years - initially from a political perspective (i.e. in newspapers),
then in commercial businesses (e.g. international business' address
categories).
No implication intended,
Sean
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