How Good Is Your Geography?? [3]

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

There are 4 "official" Oceans. Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic; and only 2 nations are bordering three. There are many seas but if you look at your globe, there are just the 4 Oceans and a lot of seas, which are areas that are separated slightly through island chains or seamounts from the basins of the greater ocean.

The US and Canada have coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic (Alaska giving the US that Claim).

Schmenke got it....

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If you look at a North-American globe... ;) :D

That's interesting, and typical cause of discussion in an international forum. If you check wikipedia, it mentions the three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, India) with the possible addition of Artic and Southern. The Spanish version of wikipedia doesn't discuss that and consider simply five oceans.

As there is no natural or obvious division in the continuous of salted water that we have in our World, there divisions are arbitrary and subject to opinion.

I guess it's something similar with the continents: how many are there? We'll all probably answer according to what we were tought at school, which will be different depending on which country we attended school :)

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Originally Posted by tinchote

If you look at a North-American globe... ;) :D

That's interesting, and typical cause of discussion in an international forum. If you check wikipedia, it mentions the three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, India) with the possible addition of Artic and Southern. The Spanish version of wikipedia doesn't discuss that and consider simply five oceans.

As there is no natural or obvious division in the continuous of salted water that we have in our World, there divisions are arbitrary and subject to opinion.

I guess it's something similar with the continents: how many are there? We'll all probably answer according to what we were tought at school, which will be different depending on which country we attended school :)

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Good points, but I believe we have 7 continents by any stretch of imagination. North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica, Africa, Asia, and Europe. My definition of the oceans are commonly accepted in most of the countries you guys are from, but I am curious to to understand where the southern ocean would come from? Antarctica is dominating the cap of the south pole, and all the oceans save the Arctic lap its shores. Since it isn't a country, it means the 3 ocean criteria in theory, but isn't the answer to my admittely simple question. I was just trying to keep the thread moving.

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

Good points, but I believe we have 7 continents by any stretch of imagination. North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica, Africa, Asia, and Europe. My definition of the oceans are commonly accepted in most of the countries you guys are from, but I am curious to to understand where the southern ocean would come from? Antarctica is dominating the cap of the south pole, and all the oceans save the Arctic lap its shores. Since it isn't a country, it means the 3 ocean criteria in theory, but isn't the answer to my admittely simple question. I was just trying to keep the thread moving.

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Oh, come on Mark, the thread is so slow anyway ;) :D

Regarding the continents, in the Spanish speaking world America is regarded as a single continent, with its parts being North, Central, and South America. And Australia is not seen as a continent in itself but rather a part of Oceania, which includes Australia, NZ, and most of the islands nearby.

As for the Antartic ocean, I'm taking the information from this site, which is in Spanish, so I'll summarize the information:

The Antartic ocean is defined to be all the water south of the 60th parallel south. The article claims this was defined by the International Hydrographic Organization in 2000, and it agrees with the area covered by the Antartic Treaty.

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Originally Posted by tinchote

Oh, come on Mark, the thread is so slow anyway ;) :D

Regarding the continents, in the Spanish speaking world America is regarded as a single continent, with its parts being North, Central, and South America. And Australia is not seen as a continent in itself but rather a part of Oceania, which includes Australia, NZ, and most of the islands nearby.

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Strange as it may seem, in English speaking England, we use the same definitions, or at least we did when I was at school.

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Originally Posted by tinchote

The Antartic ocean is defined to be all the water south of the 60th parallel south. The article claims this was defined by the International Hydrographic Organization in 2000, and it agrees with the area covered by the Antartic Treaty.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hern_Ocean.png

The southern ocean is south of 60degrees latitude although some people only see it as the most southern parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian ocean.

Well there you go, schools here are maybe teaching about the Southern Ocean now, I don't know, but we were always told Australia was a continent, and North and South America were separate mainly because if you are going to consider Europe and Asia separate for this purpose, even though they have an extensive land connection, then the America's connected by the narrow isthmus at Panama would be two continents. It is a cultural thing on how things are defined, and I am surprised that the international organizations that define that stuff wouldn't have been more forceful on getting down to the definitions.

Anyhow, lets move on with another question then, and one of you guys can offer it up.

Whoops, apologies... I retrieved this thread to give 'er a good bump only to realize that it's my go...

So.... perhaps an easy one...

Lusaka is the capital city of what country?

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Originally Posted by schmenke

Whoops, apologies... I retrieved this thread to give 'er a good bump only to realize that it's my go...

So.... perhaps an easy one...

Lusaka is the capital city of what country?

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Well, not easy enough for me! :laugh:

Zambia.

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Originally Posted by tinchote

Well, not easy enough for me! :laugh:

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Easy enough for Carl :p :

Have a go Mr. Metro! :)