Honolulu is in which continent

There, heat and pressure chemically extract the lighter silica-rich components that bubble up and solidify before reaching the surface.

Zealandia is huge compared with most undersea features. Its size is comparable to the Indian subcontinent that stuck onto Asia when it collided with the big continent millions of years ago, forming the Himalaya Mountains.

There is no agreement on the status of Zealandia. Some note other large land masses, such as Madagascar, but Madagascar is only one-sixth the size of the proposed Zealandia continent. Greenland might be large enough to be a continent, but it is only half the size of Zealandia, and there is general agreement that it is not distinct from nearby North America. All of the discussion, conversation, debate and argument over this may seem trivial to the layman, but visualizing Zealandia as a separate continent can help scientists solve the continental jigsaw puzzle, and study how geologic forces reshape continental landmasses over time.

Without a standard definition of what a continent is, there is no global agreement on the number of continents. Geologists consider Europe to be part of the Eurasian continent, while Europeans consider North and South America to be one large continent. Richard Brill is a professor of science at Honolulu Community College. His column runs on the first and third Fridays of the month.

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Previous Story Suit seeks to halt hotel work following discovery of burials. Our Privacy Policy has been updated. You have to make sure you don't go too far, though. The Generative Semantics movement of the s got a bit silly in this respect. Reading examples in other languages can be informative: I learn the words for all sorts of things in other languages, for instance. Did you know that the Cantonese for 'Christmas' is literally 'Jesus birthday'?

And the Swahili for 'lion' is 'simba'? But today I was reading a paper and was baffled. It's Hamblin's classic paper on questions.

In it, he discusses how some questions include a presupposition. The in famous example of this is 'Have you stopped beating your wife? Hamblin notes that a question like 'In which continent is Luxembourg? He gives this question as the equivalent example where the same presupposition would be untrue: 'In which continent is Honolulu? You cannot, says Hamblin, answer by simply saying what continent Honolulu is in, because it is not in a continent at all.

In , when this paper was written, Hawai'i was not yet a State: it became one in But it was a Territory, and so, I thought to myself, surely still considered to be in the continent of North America?

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