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Continents
- EuropeIn 1725, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg drew a new line along the Volga River. He followed the waterway north until the Samara Bend and then traced it along…
- South AmericaThe Andes mountain range stretches along the western edge of South America, forming the longest uninterrupted mountain chain on Earth.
- AsiaThe word Asia first appeared in Hittite records around 1400 BCE, referring to a confederation of Assuwan states that rebelled against King Tudhaliya I.
- AfricaIn 1974, a team of paleoanthropologists discovered the fossilized skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis in Ethiopia's Afar Triangle.
- North AmericaThe continent of North America stretches from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Caribbean Sea and South America in the southeast.
- Australia (continent)The Australian continent sits in the middle of a tectonic plate, making it unique among all landmasses on Earth. It has no active volcanism today because…
- AntarcticaThe air temperature at Russia's Vostok Station hit minus 89.2 degrees Celsius on the 21st of July 1983. This record remains the lowest natural air…
- ContinentThe English noun continent emerged in the mid-16th century from the Latin phrase continent land. This term originally meant continuous or connected land…
- Indian subcontinentThe Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and…