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Comment on Survival Kit – Everyone Should Own One by camping world

camping world — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:35:20 +0000

The unavoidable personal safety survival kit for women is the one which should be possessed by every woman. This kit gives much of the necessary materials and instructions to women on how to protect themselves adequately.

Comment on Survival Kit – Everyone Should Own One by disaster kits

disaster kits — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:33:00 +0000

Your survival kit should contain enough items to meet the requirements of the emergency situation. For instance, no matter what the size of your survival kit, it should make adequate provisions for your most important necessity in a crisis – water. Thirst increases doing an emergency situation, leaving you at risk for dehydration. You would be surprised at the number of emergency kits out there that contain very little provision for water.

Comment on Survival Kit – Everyone Should Own One by survival skills

survival skills — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:04:23 +0000

As per the present scenario, there are many people want the survival kits, because it’s the main resource through which a person can live for a long time. These types of survival kits are available in different format in order to meet a person’s requirements at different conditions such as:

Wilderness
Vacationing outdoors
Emergency
Personal

Comment on Why is greenland never included in the list of countries in north america? by fthnature

fthnature — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:40:55 +0000

A continent is a large contiguous chunk of land. Depending on where you are taught (in the world) you will have learned that there are between 4 and 7 continents.

In most of these models Greenland is part of the North American continent (islands get grouped together with the nearby continents as if they just broke off yesterday). I think depending on which model you use Greenland may be part of a different grouping.

Please also note that due to map distortion (projecting a 3-d sphere onto a 2-d flat surface) greenland is shown as disproportionately large… compare it to countries near the equator and check the land-size. The smaller size (about a quarter the size of australia) may be part of why it is generally overlooked. A little bigger and it might be it’s own continent

Hope this helps.

Comment on Why is greenland never included in the list of countries in north america? by Roma

Roma — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:27:17 +0000

Greenland is part of North America. Why it isn’t usually listed is also a mystery to me. My only theory would be it’s small population-wise and it’s pretty far away from the rest of North America.

The idea that it belongs to Denmark and is, therefore, not a part of North America is baseless. So when India was a colony of England, it wasn’t part of Asia? Which continent an area belongs to is based on geographical location, not who owns it.

Comment on Why is greenland never included in the list of countries in north america? by sassykatze

sassykatze — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:04:56 +0000

It is on my map … http://www.aneki.com/North_America_Map.html

http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blrnorthamerica.htm

Geography lesson for today … Greenland IS in North America.

Comment on Why is greenland never included in the list of countries in north america? by ttoommaa

ttoommaa — Sun, 08 May 2011 08:10:06 +0000

It belongs to Denmark, and it’s not considered to be in North America.

Comment on Why is greenland never included in the list of countries in north america? by Cardinal64

Cardinal64 — Sun, 08 May 2011 07:41:40 +0000

Greenland is a territory of Denmark

Comment on Why is greenland never included in the list of countries in north america? by Bored_now

Bored_now — Sun, 08 May 2011 06:54:37 +0000

A better question is why isn’t Greenland considered a continent when it is larger than Australia.

Comment on Why is greenland never included in the list of countries in north america? by Bardo

Bardo — Sun, 08 May 2011 06:28:48 +0000

Because it’s Danish