History of Continent

	Revision 4 . . (edit) November 7, 2001 12:12 pm by Vicki Rosenzweig
	Revision 3 . . November 7, 2001 7:26 am by Hagedis
	Revision 2 . . November 1, 2001 7:36 am by Hagedis [supercontinent]

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Changed: 1c1

A continent is one of the main land masses of Earth (or of a planet--on the hypothesis that there are other planets with oceans and land masses similar to the Earth's).

A continent is one of the main land masses of Earth (or of a planet--on the hypothesis that there are other planets with oceans and land masses similar to the Earth's).

Changed: 3c3,5

A land mass larger than a continent is called a supercontinent.

A land mass larger than a continent is called a supercontinent. The classification of land masses as continents, supercontinents and islands is by enumeration: the following land masses are declared to be continents:

Removed: 5d6

The continents of earth include:

Changed: 9c10

:Australia - often clumped with surrounding islands into Oceania - usually counted a continent

:Australia

Added: 12a14,18

Continents are often combined with nearby islands to form regions of the same name: e.g., the British Isles are placed with Europe. The Pacific islands and Australia are sometimes combined as Oceania.