Is South America a continent in its own right, or is it referred to as The Americas?

Need to know so that I can enter a competition to win a Jaguar X-Type.

Ta.

9th

It's a continent in it's own right!
You do realise that Lisa is going to call me a 'girly swat' again don't you?

The seven continents are:
Asia
Africa
North America
South America
Europe
Australia
Antarctica

Good luck in your competition! :D

Where does that leave New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea etc? The 6th continent is more correctly known these days as Australia/Oceania or just Oceania.

Sorry - if you are being a 'girly swat' I'm just being horribly pedantic.

Joan
Take the rough with the smooth

Well it was quite a while ago since my last geography class Joan!!

No comment Jacqui although I couldn't even remember a geography lesson the next day never mind 20 odd yrs later

I hate to disagree, but I think that America is all one continent. The 7 continents are
Asia
Australasia (including all those islands)
Arctica
Antarctica
Europe
Africa
America

No. Arctica is not a continent - it is not even a total land mass, a lot of it is just polar ice cap. If you type Continents of the World into a search engine such as Google you will come up with the list that JacquiN came up with but with my amendment of Australia/Oceania. Australasia is a regional grouping of countries including parts of south east Asia such as Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and Hong Kong as well as Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.
America has always been two separate continents.

Joan
Take the rough with the smooth

I thought America was one continent too? Gina

I didn't win the Jaguar.

This may have something to do with the fact that our local paper doesn't recognise North or South America, it's all just "America".

Back to piling the dogs into the back of my VW (if it ever gets out of the garage).

Thanks for your help anyway.

I guess if us Americans typically lump all of the UK into just "England," it could be fair that your local newsie lumps these two rather large landmasses into just one "America" :D :D
You could always appeal & take them to court...now that's the American spirit!!! :D :D :D
toodles

I would take them to court, but it might be cheaper just to buy a new car myself!!

This is the local paper that when the Titanic sank, ran the headline "North East Man Drowns at Sea". :D

rofl --- guess it has a long history of understatement :D
Reminds me of when my parents & I were Britrailing around Scotland and we asked how far a certain estate was from our location to walk to. "Aoch, just a wee wehy don the rood"... We gave up after 4 miles due to time constraints.
toodles

It's a national sport. Baiting the American Tourist Did they also tell you where you could go to see the Haggis roam free?

I don't quite remember, but as a 12 year old at the time, any sentence containing the word "Haggis" was automatically suspect. :D My mom did figure out the game of "requiring the tourist to ask the specific correct question." No information was ever freely volunteered. We had lots of fun during that 3 month trek. :D

Even as an adult AND an American, I do find it quite amusing to participate in "Bait the A.T." here on the continent. Having dogs makes us the perfect undercover agents for the sport :D Have to find our fun somehow

I must admit that I hate it when I see in American publications dogs with Eng Ch. There is no such thing as there are no seperate Welsh or Scottish Champions. It should be British Champion, GB ch or the one I use UK Ch!

Webster's dictionary defines "Continent" as one of the usually seven great divisions of land on the globe -- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
Some consider Europe & Asia to be one continent -- That's where the qualifying "usually" comes from ie: Eurasia

Apparently some new cartographers are pushing the idea that the Middle East is another.

Islands don't count because...well, they're islands

Don't shoot the messenger, please, I'm just quoting the dictionary
toodles

Thanks a lot. If I win the Jag I'll give you all a spin in it - just hope you don't mind dog hairs!