But if we are playing with century-old conventions, why not correct Waldseemüller's unilateral decision and find some beautiful new name for the entire continent 🐸😜
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Somebody should propose it first! I do seem to think Oceania was not so used as a continent name until more recently (when I was a child I think the continent as a whole was Australia, maybe wrong?)
Idk, in German it used to be the "Südsee" or Southern Sea (and its Inseln/islands) in my childhood, I guess we adapted Ozeanien from the English-speaking world at some point but it is usually taken to mean "everybody down there except the continent of Australia"
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