People used to say Australia until they realised they forgot about the other 12 countries or so which were continentless.

[quote=ninty9][quote=Tripper][quote="Cpl. Eames":70197][quote=ninty9]What if someone was on a plane, flying over the ocean? They wouldn't be on a continent. What if I jump up. I'm not on the continent anymore either. What if I suspend myself from my ceiling. I can do whatever I want because the government can't do anything because i'm not on the country. BWHAHAHA!! I am invincible! I guess oceania is what you meant if your flying on a plane? oOo:

You missed a continent. Australia. And Oceania isn't a continent.

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ROFL you forgot Austrailia you dumb ass!!!!!!!![/quote]

*Ahem*

Oceania IS a continent, it is Australia & New Zealand and a few other pacific nations. oOo:[/quote]

Eames, I have no idea what you're talking about.

And Tripper, I have never heard of a continent "Oceania". I was taught "Australia" was a continent, and I suppose that NZ was a part of that continent.

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what do u mean u dont know what im talking about?? I said the same thing that you did, that i was taught austrailia instead of oceania. what were u reading???

omg



you can call it either Oceania & Australia. Oceania is just more umm considerate. biggrin: what a thing to argue about. rolleyes:

Potato, Potatoe.

I'm gonna make a big thing out of this:

I was brought up being taught that MY country belonged to a continent called OCEANIA......I also feel that a continent which includes 22 nations simply being named 'Australia' is inconsiderate.

As a member nation of OCEANIA, I would have thought that our school system would have gotten it right.....and reading through a couple of websites now (most likely North American ones) I am finding out for the first time that the continent is refered to be people overseas as simply AUSTRALIA.....And no doubt, just because it is the biggest country in the continent.

he's got a point there... happy:

Ive heard Australia and Oceania, but I always called it Oceania.



I live in Antarctica oOo:

They call it Oceanina because they didn't want it to be named after a single country (like tripper said.) .

It's Australlia, New Zeland, New Guiney, Indonesia and all those other small islands around the pacific area.

w3rd rock:

im sorry dude, but i, we...from north america have never heard about this oceania before . i too was taught that there was 7 continents. and australia was one of them

guess you can just chaulk this one up to us being arrogant egocentric asshole americans again rolleyes:

I was taught Oceania in the states... oOo:

[quote="Animal Mother":71879]I was taught Oceania in the states... oOo:[/quote:71879]

i think this might be a generation gap thing then...im gonna be 24 in may. and i think AM is a youngin...im sure the school system has become WAY more pc since i was in gradeschool. so i can easily see them teaching oceania now. for me though, i wasnt taught that, just being honest. beer:

I was taught Australia, not Oceania, and I'm 16 eek:

yeah last I check Oceanea or...a bunch of small ass island out in te middle of an ocean wasnt a giant land mass called a continent. while Australia was.