These networks of radio telescopes use sophisticated computer and communication technology called very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) to function as single continent spanning telescopes - the greatest eyes - on - the - sky ever created. (galaxymap.org)
The two worlds also had enough unifying elements, however, to be considered a single continent. (firstthings.com)
It was not until the advance of Islam in the seventh and early eighth centuries that a border would be drawn across the Mediterranean, subdividing what had been a single continent into three: Asia, Africa, and Europe. (firstthings.com)