{"id":23630,"date":"2025-06-24T06:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geocurrents.info\/?p=23630"},"modified":"2025-06-24T06:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:31:27","slug":"part-2-of-the-myth-of-continents-revisisited-video-posted-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geocurrents.info\/blog\/2025\/06\/24\/part-2-of-the-myth-of-continents-revisisited-video-posted-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2 of \u201cThe Myth of Continents Revisisited\u201d Video Posted on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second half of my lecture on continents has been posted on YouTube and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PuZ7SwyD3GI\">can be found here<\/a>. It begins with the geological conception of the terms \u201ccontinent\u201d and \u201ccontinental,\u201d and then pivots to show why the continental scheme is of little if any use for understating either biogeography or human geography. The next section looks at the alternative world-regional system of global division. 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It begins with the geological conception of the terms \u201ccontinent\u201d and \u201ccontinental,\u201d and then pivots to show why the continental scheme is of little if any use for understating either biogeography or human geography. 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