Why call it 'America?'

[Rath]

TWRoO said:

reggie2 said:
Well we are an Island and most of the United Kingdom would rather be independent of Europe anyway in fact I think there are more people here who would rather be part of the United States.....(maybe thats why the Xbox does so well here).....

God save the Queen
and
God bless America

1. eugh no. I like being part of Europe.

2. The UK is an island, but so is New Zealand yet it is still part of Oceania (the rest of Oceania is made of islands though) The Greek islands, Cyprus, Sardinia etc are also part of Europe, Canada has a few huge islands too.

Oceania isn't really a continent to be honest. Australia is a continent in its own right and New Zealand is certainly not attached to it in any way other than proximity. As I said NZ is actually literally on a continent 'Zealandia' if you want to get pedantic and Britain isn't part of Europe. Basically Islands seem to get attached the nearest continent to them in describing the continents even though they don't always share a physical relation with them.