[WikiEN-l] ABOUT LATITUDE.

[Jens Ropers]

On 10 Sep 2004, at 10:35, wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:35:02 -0700
> From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
>
> Jens Ropers wrote:
>
>> On 10 Sep 2004, at 01:23, Fred Bauder wrote:
>>
>>> Interestingly, Britain and Ireland are considered part of Europe, 
>>> even
>>> Iceland is, while Cuba is not considered part of North America.
>>>
>>> Fred
>>
>> Is that so?
>> Well... four words: United States foreign politics ;-)
>
> I believe that this position predates the Castro era.
>
> Ec

Hm. That's probably because of the "islands aren't continents" concept 
I referenced earlier.

-J