margo wrote:CalamityJane wrote:margo, in Europe (except France) and the US, we're
taught that New Zealand is part of the continent Australia.
You Australians beg to differ, but it is still taught that way.....
We don't beg to differ - it's just incorrect.
If you wish to consider Oceania as a continent (which it isn't) - well OK - sorta.
But New Zealand is not part of Australia. We were all part of the greater Gondawanaland, eons back.
Ignorance in the northern hemisphere of the southern hemisphere fascinates me.
Not sorta.... It IS
They are separate countries....but part of the same continent
This is a fact, not a statement born of ignorance. Differences in culture and opinion do not separate a continent :-)
