Wikipedia 10K Redux

Reconstructed by Reagle from Starling archive; see blog post for context.

Continent

A continent is one of the main land masses of Earth (or of a planet--on the hypothesis that there are other planets with oceans and land masses similar to the Earth's).

The continents of earth include:

:Africa

:Antarctica

:Asia

:Australia - often clumped with surrounding islands into Oceania - usually counted a continent

:Europe

:North America

:South America