Earth’s Seven Continents Might Be a Myth: Only Six Continents May Truly Exist After All

Earth’s Seven Continents Might Be a Myth: Only Six Continents May Truly Exist After All

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans and plate boundaries. But new research out of the University of Derby is calling that foundational knowledge into question. According to a study published in Gondwana Research, the divide between Europe and North America may be less defined than textbooks suggest. At the center of this revisionist theory is Iceland, a volcan…