Apparently, Hawaii is counted as part of Oceania as often as not.
I’ve been to the Canary Islands which are about 60 miles off the coast of Morocco, but I didn’t count that as visiting Africa.
And I spent a whole lunchtime in Asia whilst visiting Istanbul.
The dog, of course. You can even make it do tricks like headstands - try that with the iron!
Huh, I’ve never been to Africa. Seems like I’ve researched a lot of trips there, we just never got around to it.
…at least by the terms of this poll!
I get five by counting Hawai’i as Oceana and Curacao as South America.
I spent a week on Bora-Bora, which is considered part of Oceania, but I’d consider it disingenuous to claim that as visiting a “continent.” It’s barely more than halfway to Australia.
Interesting poll – but I would have put the list of continents first, before asking “how many,” since the number, name, and boundaries of “continents” varies across cultures, times, and even individual preferences.
For example, I think Wheelz should says “yes” to Oceania, but I wouldn’t complain if they chose not to…and I would say markn_1 has NOT been to South America, but again I’m fine with their thinking that they have. And, I hesitated before marking “yes” to Africa – I’ve been to Egypt, but culturally it’s part of the Middle East (a.k.a. Southwest Asia), whereas many would consider Africa to imply “Sub-Saharan Africa.”
(Central America plus the Caribbean/West Indies is sometimes considered a separate world region from either South or North America – but I wager most people, if they had to choose between the two, would choose North America, putting Curacao within it, even though it’s but a few miles from the South American coast.)
I really should have listed just Australia and not Oceania. It never occurred to me that Hawaii would be considered part of Oceania.
As for me, just North America and Australia. But I am hitting Europe next week, and Africa next year, og willing and the creek don’t rise.
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I did not count Hawai’i as part of Oceania.
And of course you want the wheelbarrow in monopoly, too carry all your cash!
If Hawaii it’s not Oceania, in which continent is it in?
Well, it’s an island / island chain, so I wasn’t considering it as on a continent at all. Continental plates, sure.
Those that insist that each state (country) be in one and only one continent would say “North America.” I guess these people put all of Russia in Asia, and all of Turkey as well?
(And they’d put French Guyana in Europe. You could argue that it is in Europe – it is straight-up part of France – but I personally would never say it’s part of a European “continent.”
And that’s apart from the argument that “continent” really is just “landmass,” in which case Europe isn’t a continent at all, just an appendage of Eurasia).
My worldview doesn’t currently allow for places that do not belong to any continent.
May be I should review that.
Right. Large oceanic areas with lots of islands are problematic (only semantically), because we’re using the word “continent” to mean two different things: “large region of the globe,” and “large landmass” – and that’s before we start mixing cultural and physical regions.
All just semantics – but I still think it’s a useful poll, to get a general sense of where Dopers have traveled or lived.
Wikipedia says it’s a “laboratory spatula”. All three photos in that poll came from the English Wikipedia page for “spatula”.
Huh, is Hawaii on the same Continental plate as Oceania? For that matter, is there a Continental plate that corresponds to Australia/NZ/Micronesia/etc? Wikipedia suggests no. But also, Hawaii seems clearly part of Polynesia, both culturally and geographically. So i guess it ought to be included in Oceania.
I’ve also been to Australia, so i can certainly tick off that box, though.
“Tune In” is an incredibly detailed book, and a must-read if you are any sort of Beatles fan.
But don’t expect a volume 2.
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I answered the poll, but i think the real answer hinges on “are you enjoying the book?” If you are, finish it. If you aren’t, stop. Whether or not there is a sequel, might be a sequel, or you know the book is part of a series that will never be finished.
I agree. IMO, it also makes a difference that the book in that poll is a non-fiction book about the Beatles’ history: even if the planned sequels never materialize, unlike a fiction series, you won’t be left in the dark about the “rest of the story” if the other books are never published.