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In 1501, Amerigo Vespucci and Gonçalo Coelho attempted to sail around what they considered the southern end of the Asian mainland into the Indian Ocean, passing through Fernando de Noronha. After reaching the coast of Brazil , they sailed along the coast of South America much farther south than Asia was known to extend, confirming that this ...
A continent is a large geographical region defined by the continental shelves and the cultures on the continent. [1] In the modern day, there are seven continents. However, there have been more continents throughout history.
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Sources that list Mount Wilhelm as the highest point in Oceania or show boundaries putting Puncak Jaya in Asia include: the United Nations, [15] 7 Continent Summits, [16] World Atlas, [17] the CIA World Factbook, [18] Canada Atlas, [19] and Papua New Guinea PNG Trekking.
The Venezuelan Andean system represents the terminal bifurcation of the Cordillera Oriental de Colombia, which in Venezuelan territory consists of two mountainous branches: the Sierra de Perija, smaller, slightly displaced from southwest to northeast with 7,151 km 2 in Venezuela; and a larger, frankly oriented Southwest to northeast with about 40,172 km 2, the Cordillera de Mérida, commonly ...
This guy gave new meaning to the slogan “Gottahava Wawa.” Police in East Windsor, N.J., arrested a 24-year-old man on Dec. 23, and charged him with misusing the town’s 911 system for ...
Dvipa (Sanskrit: द्वीप, lit. 'island', IAST: Dvīpa) [1] is a term in Hindu cosmography. The Puranas describe a dvipa to be one of the seven islands [2] or continents that are present on earth, each of them surrounded by an ocean. [3]
From January 2008 to July 2008, if you bought shares in companies when Ellen V. Futter joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -54.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a -14.2 percent return from the S&P 500.