Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of ...

Our mental maps are usually simplifications of the actual geography ... in North America and Europe as everyone else. Cartographers aren’t immune either. The “eastiness” of South America ...

Long ago, one great ocean flowed between North and South America. When the Isthmus of Panama ... the origin of modern-day animals and plants of the Americas and why Caribbean reefs became ...

he tells Wade. In Panama, he suggests, the monkeys found vegetation and fruits similar to what they ate in South America. Once they headed north to Costa Rica and Nicaragua, however, they probably ...