--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "anorak222" &al
> All landmasses on earth are really just islands in the global ocean
> (there is only one). Some islands are bigger, some are smaller, and
> we tend to call the a couple of bigger ones "continents". But
there's
> no strict seperation between continents and regular islands. Not
even
> size. Why is Australia a continent, but Greenland isn't? It's just
> arbitrary.
>
> And the island concept isn't strictly followed either. If it was,
we
> would call Eurasiafrica one continent, since the three are
connected
> by land (Well, Africa is now separated by the Suez canal, but
that's
> a human made waterway so it doesn't count).
etc
etc
etc
first
congrats to you one & all for this unprecedented free for all
which has created possibly the biggest day or days of message
production in bp history
i can already see in my minds eye some members with clogged mailboxes
scurrying back to the daily digest delivery format
hahahaha
also
some of the above matters & outgrowths of them
including the improbable question of
which country contains the most continents
were settled fairly definitively 2 years ago in the message sequence
413 410 406 401
& i guess it is valuable to keep revisiting the old country
or something like that
since i for one did rather enjoy the excursion & diversion of it all
thank you & please resume erupting
m