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Islands tbh, just like Japan is not part of Asian continent
Is the U.K. part of the European continent or not?
Islands tbh, just like Japan is not part of Asian continent
There is no UK or Japan continent so by definition UK is part of Europe
intelligent life forms dont want anything to do with monkeys man
Continent by definition implies a contiguous land mass, so NO.
It's separated by a small channel, it's not like we're talking about Hawaii.
The ? Of course it is.
The narrowest meaning of continent is that of a continuous area of land or mainland, with the coastline and any land boundaries forming the edge of the continent. In this sense the term continental Europe (sometimes "the Continent") is used to refer to mainland Europe, excluding islands such as Great Britain, Ireland, Malta and Iceland, and the term continent of Australia may refer to the mainland of Australia, excluding Tasmania and New Guinea. Similarly, the continental United States refers to the 48 contiguous states in central North America and may include Alaska in the northwest of the continent (the two being separated by Canada), while excluding Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
What is a "scro"?
It's the opposite of a brotum.
http://www.worldatlas.com/cntycont.htm
The world atlas disagrees.
scrotum u should know
Look at the islands your source lists as North America...
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
det was my thought exactly
Look at the islands your source lists as North America...
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Pretty sure the UK is part of the highlighted areas.
This is linked from the same Wiki page you used above to show that the UK isn't part of the European continent.
There are different definitions of continent as you have seen. Logically, including Hawaii as part of the North American continent is ridiculous since they are volcanic islands in the middle of the ing Pacific Ocean.
Pretty sure the UK is part of the highlighted areas.
This is linked from the same Wiki page you used above to show that the UK isn't part of the European continent.
What separates Europe from Asia?
Isn't Australia just a big island?
There has to be an authority and a standard. I'd say the world atlas would be a good place to start. It's certainly much better than random opinions based on arbitrary criteria. If you want to use tectonic plates as a guide, then the UK is part of the Eurasian plate and Hawaii isn't part of the North American plate.
The UK/Ireland are a fairly large set of land masses (islands) that at their closest point are 20 miles from the mainland. The underwater portion of the Channel Tunnel is actually shorter than the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway between Covington and New Orleans. The depth of the Dover Straight is less than 140 feet, which would indicate that even a slight change in tectonic shifting way back in the day would have easily created a land bridge connecting the two. To compare it to Hawaii just because both are islands isn't very logical either.
On a side note, here in the UK they always refer to the mainland when they say Europe, or they simply say The Continent. They don't like to identify themselves as European.
Technically, it's the Ural River. I've stood on both banks.
Hardly a wide expanse and technically still part of the same land mass.
Yep. Just giving the technical answer. Of course, they call the area Eurasia because it doesn't fit with either Westernized Europe and Southeast Asia. #blurredlines
it's a part of the continent of Europe but not continental Europe. you're dealing in semantics here.
Does the definition of "maritime continent" apply to Europe?
Here's an link defining European maritime jurisdiction: http://www.eurocean.org/np4/10
it used to be connected to Europe though. Check out Doggerland.
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