Subcontinents
Certain parts of continents are recognized as subcontinents, especially the large peninsulas separated from the main continental landmass by geographical features. The most widely recognized example is the Indian subcontinent.[1] The Arabian Peninsula, Southern Africa, the Southern Cone of South America, and Alaska in North America might be considered further examples.[1][2]
In many of these cases, the "subcontinents" concerned are on different tectonic plates from the rest of the continent, providing a geological justification for the terminology.[3] Greenland, generally reckoned as the world's largest island on the northeastern periphery of the North American Plate, is sometimes referred to as a subcontinent.[4][5] This is a significant departure from the more conventional view of a subcontinent as comprising a very large peninsula on the fringe of a continent.[1]
Where the Americas are viewed as a single continent (America), it is divided into two subcontinents (North America and South America)[6][7][8] or three (Central America being the third).[9][10] When Eurasia is regarded as a single continent, Asia and Europe are treated as subcontinents.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Baldwin, James A. (2014), "Continents", in R.W. McColl, Encyclopedia of World Geography, Infobase Publishing, pp. 214–216, ISBN 978-0-8160-7229-3 – via Google Books
- ↑ Scholvin, Sören (2016). The Geopolitics of Regional Power. Routledge. p. 16. ISBN 9781317030461. Search this book on
- ↑ Molnar, Peter (2015). Plate Tectonics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-104396-3 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- p. 98: Thus, we can calculate past positions of the Indian Plate, with the Indian Subcontinent as its passenger, with respect to the Eurasian Plate.
- p. 116: The Arabian Subcontinent later, approximately 35 million years ago, collided with southern Eurasia to form the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran.
- ↑ Nares Strait and the drift of Greenland: a conflict in plate tectonics. Museum Tusculanum Press. 1982. pp. 32–. ISBN 978-87-635-1150-6 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Farmer, G. Thomas; Cook, John (2013), Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis: Volume 1 – The Physical Climate, Springer Science+Business Media, pp. 281–, ISBN 978-94-007-5757-8 – via Google Books
- ↑ Gallay, Alan (2015). Colonial Wars of North America, 1512–1763 (Routledge Revivals): An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-1-317-48719-7 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Innes, John L.; Haron, Abu Hassan (2000). Air Pollution and the Forests of Developing and Rapidly Industrializing Regions. CABI. pp. 36–. ISBN 978-0-85199-932-6 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Vivares, Ernesto (2014). Exploring the New South American Regionalism (NSAR). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-1-4094-6961-2 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Leonard, Thomas M. (2005). Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Psychology Press. pp. 1637–. ISBN 978-1-57958-388-0 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ In Ibero-America, North America usually designates a region (subcontinente in Spanish) of the Americas containing Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and often Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Bermuda; the land bridge of Central America is generally considered a subregion of North America.Norteamérica (Mexican version) Archived 30 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine/(Spaniard version) Archived 29 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Encarta Online Encyclopedia. 2009.
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