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To: scrabblehack

It is in Asia. Stupid Eew politicians.


9 posted on 05/30/2018 4:50:35 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: Leo Carpathian

I like the heuristic of assigning islands to their nearest continent. Look up the “Wallace Line” - separates Asia from Australasia (as some British atlases call it).

The same heuristic puts the Greater Antilles in North America, but the Lesser Antilles in South America. Most atlases put all or nearly all the West Indies in North America. One atlas I saw put Trinidad and Tobago in South America, but that was all.

As I recall, Tahiti actually gets put in Antarctica unless you create an 8th continent between South America and Australasia which ends up consisting of a bunch of small islands in the South Pacific.

Some of the Greek islands end up in Asia.


14 posted on 05/30/2018 3:27:20 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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