• dev_null@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      If you count the Panama Canal and squint, you can make an argument. Not so much for the above.

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        5 months ago

        The panama canal is not an ocean…and man made. No amount of squinting could make it a reasonable argument to count it.

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          5 months ago

          Then you don’t count Africa either?

          In fact if it has to be surrounded by an ocean then there are only two continents, Antarctica and everything else. You can cross them all without entering an ocean, only seas.

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            5 months ago

            Technically no, not when using the same argument.

            Although Australia is also surrounded by ocean so Antarctica, Australia, and everything else

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            5 months ago

            Africa being an ocean is supported by there being saltwater between it and Asia. The panama canal(s) connect freshwater lakes to bridge the gap between the Pacific and the Atlantic.

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              saltwater between it and Asia

              If the Panama Canal doesn’t count, neither does the Suez Canal, IMO.