Not always zoo related but I have been to World wide Australia Thailand Singapore USA (East coast, west coast, and mid west) Canada (Niagra falls day trip from NY) Europe The Netherlands Germany Denmark Belgium France Spain Italy Vatican city Malta The Balearic's (Minorca, Majorca, Ibiza) Portugal Grand Canaria I think that is all
I think I know what a continent is but I am open to corrections. Quote from Wikipedia which I know can be unreliable but this is basically what I think of a continent as. The seven regions being: North America South America/ Latin America Oceania/ Australasia Africa Europe Asia Antarctica How else could you understand continent to mean? If you are talking about tectonic plates that is different and anyway NZ and Australia are on the same tectonic plate so I am not too sure what you take continent to mean. (No offence taken, I am always open to being corrected)
As Chlidonias pointed out - I'm not saying New Zealand is a continent, because it's not. It's a group of islands. Madagascar is not a continent either, but a very large island. However, geopolitically, it is usually considered part of Africa (along with the Comoros, Seychelles, etc.) Then we are in complete disagreement, except for your last statement. I'm not saying it doesn't mean they are not part of that country, but IMO you can't say you've been to the Netherlands if you've only been to Aruba, because you haven't been to the Netherlands. You been to a Netherlands territory. To say otherwise would be misleading and dishonest - IMO. Oceania is not a continent, but another geopolitical construct designed to encompass many islands spread over a vastly large area. Have a read of the Wikipedia article for Oceania and you'll see there is no firm definition for Oceania. Australia is a continent, everything else in Oceania is islands. Hix
Fair enough. For my perspective a territory counts as being part of the nation but we will agree to disagree
don't believe everything on Wikipedia. Australia is a continent; Oceania or Australasia are general terms for the bits of land within the Pacific which include many islands and one continent. Technically Europe and Asia are one continent obviously (hence Eurasia) but for political/conventional reasons they have long been treated as separate continents. The same is not true in any way for Australasia/Oceania.
I live in the UK then... Italy Netherlands France Spain Germany Ireland Belgium Denmark Sweden Switzerland Poland Czech Rep Slovakia Slovenia Croatia Serbia Hungary Greece Vatican City USA Brazil Argentina Uruguary Bolivia Peru Ecuador Colombia Thailand Cambodia Malaysia Indonesia Hopefully I'll keep that number above my age.
2 and a half years after I commented here initially I can add several countries: Asia: Laos Thailand Vietnam Singapore India Nepal Americas: Argentina Old ones: Americas: Brazil USA Colombia Peru Aruba (Netherlands?) Dominican Republic Europe: UK (England, Wales & Jersey) France
Aruba is an independent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, so should be treated as Aruba not NL My list probably won't change this year: Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic France Germany Great Britain Hungary Iceland Italy Luxemburg Netherlands Poland Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Switzerland Vatican Botswana Ethiopia Kenya Madagascar Morocco Namibia South Africa Tanzania Zambia And only as a stop-over: Qatar
A bit late to this thread - only came on to look up Montreal Ecomuseum Zoo - which I shall be visiting in June So my list, from memory..... Australia (WA only) Singapore South Africa USA Canada England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Jersey France Germany Austria Belgium The Netherlands Czech Republic Poland Malta Greece (although only Corfu) Spain Portugal Italy Finland Norway Switzerland Hungary
And it seems no photos of Ecomuseum at all!! Has no zoochatters been there? It appears they have American Marten, Fisher and both Northern and Southern Flying Squirrels....get in!!
No-one seems to have been to Reunion, Mauritius, Samoa, Timor- Leste, Sulawesi, Flores or the Cook islands. All of these are well worth a visit, although not all of them have wildlife that is easy to see. Lord Howe island is also another place that should be on your list.
Chlidonias has at least visited Sulawesi and Flores, there's even threads of his trips reports from there on zoochat. Think he's also been to Samoa.
I'm pretty sure one zoochatter have been to Mauritius, consider he is the leading conservationist for Mauritius Kestrel.
I've been to Mauritius twice My list is only African countries: South Africa (My whole life) Namibia (twice) Botswana (twice) Angola (once) Mozambique (once) Lesotho (once) Swaziland (once) Mauritius (twice) Zimbabwe (once)
