Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make ... Europe could be seen as a single continent rather than two separate ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world ... across the Atlantic from South America. Courtesy John Nelson, Esri Another commonly misplaced continent is Africa. North Americans tend to think ...

Staring at a map of North and South America, from the frozen extremities ... But it’s also one of the cultural kingpins of the continent, with a human backstory as intricate as its homespun ...

While the U.S. teaches that there are seven continents, Europe teaches that there are only six, with North and South America ... that North America and Europe are actually one continent, which ...

Aside from supercontinent formations, North and South America were unconnected up until ... passage for living creatures from one continent to the other. The resulting Great American Biotic ...