is Oceania a real continent?

Answer 1

No, it's not. Oceania is composed of the islands of the South Pacific, namely Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the smaller island groups of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia.

Answer 2

Oceania (sometimes Oceanica) is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands and usually including Australia—in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The exact scope of Oceania is defined variously, with interpretations normally including Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and various islands of the Malay Archipelago. The term is also used by many authors and in many languages to define one of the continents.

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Answer 3

it is not a continent. Your continents are
1. America (separated into North America , and Central and South America only if you live in the US)
2. Europe
3. Asia
4. Africa
5. Antarctica
6. Australia (not limited only to the island of Australia but includes the many islands around it)
The issue with the Americas is that for North American cultural superiority ideas it is not convenient to consider themselves part of the American Continent. However, the defining element of a continental separation is whether the underlying masses under the continents (or "continental mass") are physically separate and moving in differing directions. This is not the case on the American continent, and American education has for a couple of decades now, used the existence of the man-made Panama canal as a reason/excuse to say that North America is separated from its Southern neighbours.
Also, some scholars believe that as there is no "continental mass separation" between Europe and Asia, and Europe and Africa, nor Africa and Asia, that that is in actual fact one large continent called "Eufrasia". There is debate on this one.

The islands (big and small) in the Pacific are grouped in "polinesia", Oceania, etc... depending on whether you are looking at cultural, geographical or geological notions (sort of like the different names for the Americas such as cultural ones for "Latin America", Iberoamerica, or the simple geographical ones: North America, Central America and South America.

So, no, Oceania is not a Continent, but a group of islands

Answer 4

YES IT IS!!!

These people are ignorant.

It's made up of all the pacific islands including Australia. If you call the continent Australia, you are leaving out all the other islands like New Zealand and Fiji.

I don't think they are happy with the fact that many people call the continent Australia.

It's like calling the continent of Africa "Sudan" just because Sudan is the largest country in it.

Answer 5

This used to confuse the heck out of me as a Radio Amateur. Basically it's all the big stuff in the Southern Pacific i.e. Australia, New Zealand, Borneo etc. Some even include the Phillipines and Taiwan.

Answer 6

The seven continents are:-
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.

Answer 7

No, the seven recognized continents in the world is Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Antartica, and Australia.

Answer 8

no....Australia is the mother continent for Oceania

Answer 9

Yes........... formerly known as Australasia. Australia is in Oceania along with not many other countries.

Answer 10

No - its a book by political theorist James Harrington. Kind of fantasy place when a republican government worked liked clockwork. Although the book was published with the blessing of Oliver Cromwell. It was reported that he found the book kind of amusing...probably thinking that it was not that easy to run a country.