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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows Technically Newfoundland is an island, but I would ca

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows Technically Newfoundland is an island, but I would call that North America

genman 3y ago
So are Bahamas, Cuba and Haiti.
bloak 3y ago
Even Greenland usually counts as North America unless you explicitly exclude it, as the cited Wikipedia article does: "L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland." But they didn't exclude Icecland! To a geologist, perhaps even parts of Iceland count as North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge#/media/File:Iceland_Mid-Atlantic_Ridge_map.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge#/media/File...
- AlotOfReading 3y ago
  The geology is just a happy accident of naming. Continents aren't defined by plates. Europe and Asia share a plate, except for a bit of western Siberia that's on the North American plate. The Americas have 3-7 different plates, but only 1-2 continents.
  - earthboundkid 3y ago
    Continents aren't defined by anything. https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Continents-Critique-Metageography/dp/0520207432/ref=sr_1_1 https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Continents-Critique-Metageograph...
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dghughes 3y ago
I'm in SE Canada a region called The Maritimes and supposedly there is evidence of Vikings visiting here. I'm West of Newfoundland but also an island. But Nova Scotia and even Maine in the US may have been visited by Vikings.
nativecoinc 3y ago
> Technically Newfoundland is an island For anyone who says this I wonder if they are consistent with how they discuss continents: - They take care to talk about the Caribbean as something in the waters near North America but not in North America itself - They talk about Indonesia as something that is in the waters close to Asia and Australia—no need for “Oceania” obviously - Madagascar as an island next to Africa And so on and so on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows Technically Newfoundland is an island, but I would call that North America

genman 3y ago

So are Bahamas, Cuba and Haiti.

bloak 3y ago

Even Greenland usually counts as North America unless you explicitly exclude it, as the cited Wikipedia article does: "L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland." But they didn't exclude Icecland! To a geologist, perhaps even parts of Iceland count as North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge#/media/File:Iceland_Mid-Atlantic_Ridge_map.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge#/media/File...

AlotOfReading 3y ago
The geology is just a happy accident of naming. Continents aren't defined by plates. Europe and Asia share a plate, except for a bit of western Siberia that's on the North American plate. The Americas have 3-7 different plates, but only 1-2 continents.
- earthboundkid 3y ago
  Continents aren't defined by anything. https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Continents-Critique-Metageography/dp/0520207432/ref=sr_1_1 https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Continents-Critique-Metageograph...
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dghughes 3y ago

I'm in SE Canada a region called The Maritimes and supposedly there is evidence of Vikings visiting here. I'm West of Newfoundland but also an island. But Nova Scotia and even Maine in the US may have been visited by Vikings.

nativecoinc 3y ago

> Technically Newfoundland is an island For anyone who says this I wonder if they are consistent with how they discuss continents: - They take care to talk about the Caribbean as something in the waters near North America but not in North America itself - They talk about Indonesia as something that is in the waters close to Asia and Australia—no need for “Oceania” obviously - Madagascar as an island next to Africa And so on and so on.