Which countries have you visited?

Hix said:
They are not.

They were about 100 million years ago when both were a part of Gondwana, but Australia broke away 90 million years ago. New Zealand broke away from what is now Antarctica 38 mya.

Australia is its own continent, with a continental shelf.

And New Zealand has a trench.
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I was talking about the continent of Oceania which includes both New Zealand and Australia
 
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
 
lintworm said:
@Hix, then Madagascar is also a continent on it's own.... Being separated 90 million years from everything and even longer from mainland Africa.
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but Hix wasn't saying that New Zealand is a continent...
 
Chlidonias said:
no offence, but do you know what a continent is?
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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.
A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with up to seven regions commonly regarded as continents.
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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)
 
lintworm said:
@Hix, then Madagascar is also a continent on it's own.... Being separated 90 million years from everything and even longer from mainland Africa.
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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.)

jabiru96 said:
Yes to both. The same as if going to Cocos (Keeling) Islands and claiming to arrive in Australia or Aruba and claiming to have travelled to the Netherlands. Just because they are a territory thousands of miles away doesn't mean that they are not part of that country.
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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.

LaughingDove said:
I was talking about the continent of Oceania which includes both New Zealand and Australia
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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.

:p

Hix
 
Hix said:
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.
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Fair enough. For my perspective a territory counts as being part of the nation but we will agree to disagree :)
 
LaughingDove said:
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)
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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
 
toto98 said:
Aruba (Netherlands?)
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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
 
I can also add to my list.
New countries in bold.

LaughingDove said:
After a certain amount of interest in the do you travel thread: http://www.zoochat.com/25/do-you-travel-388911/ I thought I would bump this thread to see if anyone who hasn't seen it would like to post their lists or if people want to update their list of countries

To start here's mine:

Africa:
1) South Africa
2) Kenya
3) Morocco
4) Ethiopia
5) Tanzania

N. America
5) USA

Australasia
6) Australia
7) New Zealand

Asia
8) Singapore
9) Malaysia
10) Thailand
11) Myanmar/Burma
12) China + hong kong
13) Oman
14) UAE
15) Saudi Arabia
16) Jordan

Europe
17) Turkey
18) Cyprus
19) Greece
20) Italy
21) Austria
22) Germany
23) Poland
24) France
25) Ireland
26) UK (England and Wales)
27) Norway
28) Iceland
29) Czech Republic
30) Slovakia
31) Hungary
32) Belgium
33) Netherlands

:)
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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.
 
Terry Thomas said:
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.
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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.
 
Terry Thomas said:
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.
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I'm pretty sure one zoochatter have been to Mauritius, consider he is the leading conservationist for Mauritius Kestrel.
 
Terry Thomas said:
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.
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I've been to Mauritius twice :D
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)
 
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