TIL Columbus never set foot in North America; he only explored the Caribbean and parts of Central and South America.

NoForwardslashS , 5 hours ago

My man read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article and came straight here to post

misterdoctor , 2 hours ago

Buddy said “No! This is like, PRESS CONFERENCE level stuff!” and hit Post

FireTower , 5 hours ago

As others have pointed out:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1ae3b839-7339-43e4-bc63-873ede2ebf28.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b9e3dcff-9fcb-434a-a34b-ecefba42629c.gif

ada , 4 hours ago

That map says that New Zealand is part of the continent of Australia, which it is not. New Zealand is on a submerged continent called Zealandia

FireTower , 4 hours ago

Continent are fairly subjective. Some favor strictly connected lands (joining Eurasia). Others do it by the tectonic plates. Other by culture barriers drawing a line between Europe and Asia.

For the purposes of the post I simply meant to convey that the NA v SA distinction is widely accepted to be at the thinnest point between them. Which would include Central America w/ NA.

ada , 3 hours ago

Right, but on an article clarifying the often misunderstood continental boundaries, I thought it might be helpful to point out that map was creating more of that confusion in a different area, whilst clarifying it for another

DMBFFF , 3 hours ago

wp:Zealandia

Zealandia (pronounced /ziːˈlændiə/), also known as Te Riu-a-Māui (Māori)[2] or Tasmantis (from Tasman Sea),[3][4] is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust in Oceania that subsided after breaking away from Gondwana 83–79 million years ago.[5] It has been described variously as a submerged continent, continental fragment, and microcontinent.[6] The name and concept for Zealandia was proposed by Bruce Luyendyk in 1995,[7] and satellite imagery shows it to be almost the size of Australia.[8] A 2021 study suggests Zealandia is over a billion years old, about twice as old as geologists previously thought.[9][10]

Chozo , 2 hours ago

At least New Zealand's on this map. :)

njm1314 , 5 hours ago

Central America is not a continent. It’s a region of North America. This is ridiculous claim.

Cadeillac , 4 hours ago

We’re reaching a point where I am questioning the ratio of quantity versus quality in OP’s posts. I still appreciate how active they are, and they have a large number of good posts

Rolando , 3 hours ago

You trippin, @Don_Dickle I appreciate you!

Cadeillac , 3 hours ago

I literally said I appreciate them

Rolando , 3 hours ago

Resolved: @Don_Dickle is appreciated!

Rolando , 2 hours ago

Just as a data point, when I was a kid, norteamericano meant someone from the US.

Please_Do_Not , 5 hours ago

Central America is in North America

Donkter , 4 hours ago

ALL AMERICA IS FREE AMERICA. IF IT AINT FREE, IT AINT ME. 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🍔🍔🍔

TheRedSpade , 4 hours ago

As is the Caribbean.

Sinkbath , 3 hours ago

He never set foot in Northern America.

Rolando , 3 hours ago

FWIW I grew up in Central America and we didn’t consider it part of North America.

I mean, if a geology teacher said it was, we’d write it down on the test that it was, but no-one thought of it that way.

SteveFromMySpace , 5 hours ago (edited 5 hours ago)

About 5 years ago I guested on a podcast about Christopher Columbus. I read 4 books in preparation. I took several semesters of Latin American history in college but discovered my passion too late to get a double major lol.

Anyway I had PAGES of shit. So many myths I was going to dispel, dozens of citations, this was going to be my magnum opus, my one brush with academia.

I then got super trashed with the hosts and repeatedly said “Columbus was a dick” so many times they never published the episode. We were all too fucked up and screaming to make something serviceable lol

njm1314 , 5 hours ago

I blame that crack.com article that came out like 15 or 20 years ago or whatever it was. One of the worst and most poorly research articles I’ve ever read and yet it’s spawned a legion of terrible responses.