Who Gets to Name Continents?

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, right? Maybe not. And who named Australia? Find out the unusually uncertain origins of the continents and other interesting stuff in this episode.

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