Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

This provided for a highly granular view of the seismic situation at local levels, but also across the entire North American continent. Looking at the map, the black lines show areas of maximum ...

The full title for the 12-panel map covering 36 square feet ... terra incognita (unknown land) for both continents, or terra nova (new world) for South America and "Cuba" for North America.

On the map, the unexplored continent of North America is called “Parias," while the newly christened America describes the South American coast all the way down to the present-day port of ...

it would mean that the tectonic plates of the European and North American continents are still in the process of breaking apart, leaving the world with six continents rather than seven.

While the U.S. teaches that there are seven continents, Europe teaches that there are only six, with North and South America counting as one consolidated America. Some combine Europe and Asia into ...

Kislak Foundation Miami Lakes, Florida Once Gerardus Mercator applied the name "america" to the entire continent in 1538, others followed suit as shown in this mid-16th-century map. Norman B.