For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as ...

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean ... including the UK. It shows all seven continents, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica.

Antarctica is a continent, not an ice wall. It has been extensively explored. Satellite images show there are only seven continents. Satellite images show Earth’s seven continents ...

which sees participants complete seven marathons in seven days on seven continents. He said: "I remember being told about the things I wouldn't be able to do and how life would never quite be the ...

Two years later, when Guinness World Records calculated the time it took her to complete marathons on all seven continents, this 1996 event would count as her first race.

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...