#madagascar is considered a mini continent but greenland is an island???

[andnowanowl]

When you get down to it, the politics around the continents is sort of insane. Say you don't consider North and South America separate because the Panama Canal is artificial (and only so deep), but what about the Isthmus of Suez? It's entirely natural but humans have expanded the waterways around it artificially. Does that mean Africa is not part of Eurasia?

Do you only consider certain continents separate because of continental drift in the recent past? India is considered a subcontinent because it used to be separate from the rest of Asia.