Quote (Cretzu @ May 6 2022 11:00pm)
Oceania, the Ocean-continent. The vast expanse of water between Asia and America with an area of 100 million square kilometers, is home to countless archipelagos and more than 10,000 islands. Due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, many of the low-lying reef islands are threatened to be submerged.
“ocean” comes, via the Old French occean, from the Latin oceanus, and ultimately from the Greek okeanos (after the Ancient Greek water deity Okeanós) – meaning “the great river or sea surrounding the disk of the Earth”