For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

A cartographer, Andy Woodruff, created several maps that illustrate coastal points around the world that directly face each continent. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science When you ...

The continent contains no countries, instead it is governed under a 1959 agreement called the Antarctic Treaty, which was signed by 12 nations, including the United Kingdom. Maps are useful tools ...

is more of an archipelago than a continent anyway. Some maps count much of Polynesia as part of the Australian continent. Six countries are so big they dominate their continent with about a third ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on ...