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Afro-Eurasia, the Glossary

Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia and Eurafrasia) is a landmass comprising the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe.^[1]

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Aegean Sea Plate

The Aegean Sea Plate (also called the Hellenic Plate or Aegean Plate) is a small tectonic plate located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea under southern Greece and western Turkey.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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The African Plate, also known as the Nubian Plate, is a major tectonic plate that includes much of the continent of Africa (except for its easternmost part) and the adjacent oceanic crust to the west and south.

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Afro-Asia

Afro-Asia is a term describing the combination of Africa and Asia.

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Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail.

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Alborz

The Alborz (البرز) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs northeast and merges into the smaller Aladagh Mountains and borders in the northeast on the parallel mountain ridge Kopet Dag in the northern parts of Khorasan.

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Amasia (supercontinent)

Amasia is a possible future supercontinent which could be formed by the merge of Asia and the Americas.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America. Afro-Eurasia and Americas are supercontinents.

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Amurian microplate

The Amurian microplate (or Amur microplate; also occasionally referred to as the China Plate, not to be confused with the South China Subplate) is a minor tectonic plate in the northern and eastern hemispheres.

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Anatolian Sub-Plate

The Anatolian Sub-Plate is a continental tectonic plate that is separated from the Eurasian plate and the Arabian plate by the North Anatolian Fault and the East Anatolian Fault respectively.

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Arabian Plate

The Arabian Plate is a minor tectonic plate in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Australia (continent)

The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, Oceania, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.

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Australian Plate

The Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate in the eastern and, largely, southern hemispheres.

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Betic corridor

The Betic Corridor, or North-Betic Strait, was a strait of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean that once separated the Iberian plate from the Eurasian plate through the Betic Cordillera.

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Big Diomede Island

Big Diomede Island or Tomorrow Island (ostrov Ratmanova; Ratmanov Island, Имэлин) is the western island of the two Diomede Islands in the middle of the Bering Strait.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands. Afro-Eurasia and British Isles are geography of Europe.

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Burma Plate

The Burma Plate is a minor tectonic plate or microplate located in Southeast Asia, sometimes considered a part of the larger Eurasian Plate.

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Cape Agulhas

Cape Agulhas (Cabo das Agulhas, "Cape of Needles") is a rocky headland in Western Cape, South Africa.

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Cape Chelyuskin

Cape Chelyuskin (Мыс Челюскина, Mys Chelyuskina) is the northernmost point of the Eurasian continent (and indeed of any continental mainland), and the northernmost point of mainland Russia.

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Cape Dezhnyov

Cape Dezhnyov or Cape Dezhnev; (Inupiaq: Nuuġaq), formerly known as East Cape or Cape Vostochny, is a cape that forms the easternmost mainland point of Asia.

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Cape Fligely

Cape Fligely (Mys Fligeli) is located on the northern shores of Rudolf Island and Franz Josef Land in the Russian Federation, and is the northernmost point of Russia, Europe, and Eurasia as a whole.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Chukotka (translit), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is the easternmost federal subject of Russia.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.

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Compound (linguistics)

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.

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Continent

A continent is any of several large geographical regions.

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Continental drift

Continental drift is the hypothesis, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time.

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Dead Sea

The Dead Sea (al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or label; Yām hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west. Afro-Eurasia and Dead Sea are extreme points of Earth.

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Dead Sea Transform

The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system, also sometimes referred to as the Dead Sea Rift, is a series of faults that run for about 1,000 km from the Maras Triple Junction (a junction with the East Anatolian Fault in southeastern Turkey) to the northern end of the Red Sea Rift (just offshore of the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula).

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Desiccation

Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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East African Rift

The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa.

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Eastern Hemisphere

The Eastern Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth which is east of the prime meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and west of the antimeridian (which crosses the Pacific Ocean and relatively little land from pole to pole).

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Ecumene

In ancient Greece, the term ecumene (U.S.) or oecumene (UK) denoted the known, inhabited, or habitable world.

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Eurafrica

Eurafrica (a portmanteau of "Europe" and "Africa") refers to the originally German idea of strategic partnership between Africa and Europe.

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Eurasia

Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Afro-Eurasia and Eurasia are supercontinents.

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Eurasian Plate

The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Extreme points of Africa

The extreme points of Africa are the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. Afro-Eurasia and extreme points of Africa are extreme points of Earth and geography of Africa.

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Extreme points of Asia

This is a list of the extreme points of Asia, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. Afro-Eurasia and extreme points of Asia are geography of Asia.

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Extreme points of Eurasia

This is a list of the extreme points of Eurasia, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. Afro-Eurasia and extreme points of Eurasia are extreme points of Asia, extreme points of Earth, geography of Asia and geography of Europe.

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Extreme points of Europe

This is a list of the extreme points of Europe: the geographical points that are higher or farther north, south, east or west than any other location in Europe. Afro-Eurasia and extreme points of Europe are geography of Europe.

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Extremes on Earth

This article lists extreme locations on Earth that hold geographical records or are otherwise known for their geophysical or meteorological superlatives. Afro-Eurasia and extremes on Earth are extreme points of Earth.

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Franz Josef Land

Franz Josef Land (Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

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Geography of Africa

Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface.

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Geography of Asia

Geography of Asia reviews geographical concepts of classifying Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprising 58 countries and territories.

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Geography of Europe

Europe is traditionally defined as one of seven continents.

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Geopolitics

Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.

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Gibraltar Arc

The Gibraltar Arc is a geological region corresponding to an arcuate orogen surrounding the Alboran Sea, between the Iberian Peninsula and Africa.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Gulf of Aqaba

The Gulf of Aqaba (Khalīj al-ʿAqaba) or Gulf of Eilat (Mifrátz Eilát) is a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Halford Mackinder

Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was a British geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Historical geology

Historical geology or palaeogeology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of geology to reconstruct the geological history of Earth.

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Indian Plate

The Indian Plate (or India Plate) is a minor tectonic plate straddling the equator in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indo-Australian Plate

The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and the surrounding ocean and extends north-west to include the Indian subcontinent and the adjacent waters.

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The Intermediate Region is an established geopolitical model set forth in the 1970s by the Greek historian Dimitri Kitsikis, professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada.

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Iranian Plate

The Iranian Plate is a small tectonic plate thought to underlie the Iranian Plateau, covering the modern-day countries of Iran and Afghanistan, and parts of Iraq and Pakistan.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Isthmus of Suez

The Isthmus of Suez is the land bridge.

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Japanese archipelago

The Japanese archipelago (Japanese:, Nihon Rettō) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that form the country of Japan.

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Jordan

Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.

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Kaapvaal Craton

The Kaapvaal Craton (centred on the Limpopo Province in South Africa), along with the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia, are the only remaining areas of pristine 3.6–2.5 Ga (billion years ago) crust on Earth.

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Land bridge

In biogeography, a land bridge is an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise separate areas, over which animals and plants are able to cross and colonize new lands.

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Landmass

A landmass, or land mass, is a large region or area of land that is in one piece and not broken up by oceans.

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Laurasia

Laurasia was the more northern of two large landmasses that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent from around (Mya), the other being Gondwana.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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List of islands of Africa

This is a list of islands of Africa.

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List of islands of Europe

This is a list of the larger offshore islands of Europe.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Mainland Australia

Mainland Australia is the main landmass of the Australian continent, excluding the Aru Islands, New Guinea, Tasmania, and other Australian offshore islands.

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Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago.

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Mediterranean Basin

In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin, also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation. Afro-Eurasia and Mediterranean Basin are geography of Europe.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border. Afro-Eurasia and Mediterranean Sea are geography of Europe.

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Messinian

The Messinian is in the geologic timescale the last age or uppermost stage of the Miocene.

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Messinian salinity crisis

The Messinian salinity crisis (also referred to as the Messinian event, and in its latest stage as the Lago Mare event) was a geological event during which the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or nearly complete desiccation (drying-up) throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma (million years ago).

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. Afro-Eurasia and mount Everest are extreme points of Asia.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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New Scientist

New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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North American Plate

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.

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Novopangaea

Novopangaea or Novopangea (Greco-Latin for "New Pangaea") is a possible future supercontinent postulated by Roy Livermore in the late 1990s.

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Okhotsk microplate

The Okhotsk microplate is a proposed minor tectonic plate covering the Kamchatka Peninsula, Magadan Oblast, and Sakhalin Island of Russia; Hokkaido, Kantō and Tōhoku regions of Japan; the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the disputed Kuril Islands.

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Old World

The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe after 1493, when Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pangaea

Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

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Pangaea Proxima

Pangaea Proxima (also called Pangaea Ultima, Neopangaea, and Pangaea II) is a possible future supercontinent configuration.

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Pointe des Almadies

Pointe des Almadies or Point Almadies ("bark canoe point") is the westernmost point on the continent of Africa and of the Afro-Eurasian landmass, lying at 17.5 degrees west of the Greenwich meridian, 8 degrees further west than Cabo da Roca, mainland Europe's westernmost point.

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Prince Edward Islands

The Prince Edward Islands are two small uninhabited islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean that are administered by South Africa.

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Rudolf Island

Prince Rudolf Land, Crown Prince Rudolf Land, Prince Rudolf Island or Rudolf Island (Остров Рудольфа) is the northernmost island of the Franz Josef Archipelago, Russia and is home to the northernmost point in Russia.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Far East

The Russian Far East (p) is a region in North Asia.

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Santo Antão, Cape Verde

Santo Antão (Portuguese for "Saint Anthony") is the northwesternmost island of Cape Verde.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (سِينَاء; سينا; Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.

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Somali Plate

The Somali Plate is a minor tectonic plate which straddles the Equator in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa. Afro-Eurasia and strait of Gibraltar are geography of Europe.

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Strait of Sicily

The Strait of Sicily (also known as Sicilian Strait, Sicilian Channel, Channel of Sicily, Sicilian Narrows and Pantelleria Channel; Canale di Sicilia or the Stretto di Sicilia; Canali di Sicilia or Strittu di Sicilia, مضيق صقلية or مضيق الوطن القبلي) is the strait between Sicily and Tunisia.

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Suez Canal

The Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).

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Sunda Plate

The Sunda Plate is a minor tectonic plate straddling the Equator in the Eastern Hemisphere on which the majority of Southeast Asia is located.

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Supercontinent

In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass. Afro-Eurasia and supercontinent are supercontinents.

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Supercontinent cycle

The supercontinent cycle is the quasi-periodic aggregation and dispersal of Earth's continental crust. Afro-Eurasia and supercontinent cycle are supercontinents.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Geographical Pivot of History

"The Geographical Pivot of History" is an article submitted by Halford John Mackinder in 1904 to the Royal Geographical Society that advances his heartland theory.

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Ur (continent)

Ur is a hypothetical supercontinent that formed in the Archean eon around 3.1 billion years ago (Ga).

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UTC+12:00

UTC+12:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +12:00.

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UTC−01:00

UTC−01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −01:00.

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Vaalbara

Vaalbara is a hypothetical Archean supercontinent consisting of the Kaapvaal Craton (now in eastern South Africa) and the Pilbara Craton (now in north-western Western Australia).

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Western Hemisphere

The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.

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World population

In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living.

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Yangtze Plate

The Yangtze Plate, also called the South China Block or the South China Subplate, comprises the bulk of southern China.

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Zagros Mountains

The Zagros Mountains (Kuh hā-ye Zāgros; translit; translit;; Luri: Kûya Zagrus کویا زاگرس or کوه یل زاگرس) are a long mountain range in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey.

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Zanclean flood

The Zanclean flood or Zanclean deluge is theorized to have refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago.

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180th meridian

The 180th meridian or antimeridian is the meridian 180° both east and west of the prime meridian in a geographical coordinate system.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Eurasia

Also known as Afrasiatic, Africa Eurasia, Africa-Eurasia, Afro Eurasia, Afro-Eurasian, Afro-Eurasian continent, Afroasia, Afroeurasia, Afroeurasian, Eura-Frasia, Eurafrasia, Eurafrasian, Eurasia-Africa, Eurasiafrica, Extreme points of Africa-Eurasia, Extreme points of Afro-Eurasia.

, Geopolitics, Gibraltar Arc, Gondwana, Gulf of Aqaba, Halford Mackinder, Himalayas, Historical geology, Indian Plate, Indian subcontinent, Indo-Australian Plate, Intermediate Region, Iranian Plate, Israel, Isthmus of Suez, Japanese archipelago, Jordan, Kaapvaal Craton, Land bridge, Landmass, Laurasia, Levant, List of islands of Africa, List of islands of Europe, Madagascar, Mainland Australia, Malay Archipelago, Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean Sea, Messinian, Messinian salinity crisis, Miocene, Mount Everest, Nepal, New Scientist, New World, North American Plate, Novopangaea, Okhotsk microplate, Old World, Oligocene, Pacific Ocean, Pangaea, Pangaea Proxima, Pointe des Almadies, Prince Edward Islands, Rudolf Island, Russia, Russian Far East, Santo Antão, Cape Verde, Senegal, Sinai Peninsula, Somali Plate, South Africa, Strait of Gibraltar, Strait of Sicily, Suez Canal, Sunda Plate, Supercontinent, Supercontinent cycle, The Atlantic, The Geographical Pivot of History, Ur (continent), UTC+12:00, UTC−01:00, Vaalbara, W. W. Norton & Company, Western Hemisphere, World population, Yangtze Plate, Zagros Mountains, Zanclean flood, 180th meridian.

Afro-Eurasia, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Extreme points of Asia

Geography of Africa

Geography of Asia

Supercontinents

References