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Which two continents whose edges are not at all on the plate boundary?
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∙ 8y ago
Australia is in the middle of the Australian-Indian plate.
Antarctica has its own plate, but the actual continent doesn't get near the plate boundary. It's plate is called, oddly enough, the Antarctic plate. Who would have figured?
You could say that Africa's edges aren't on plate boundaries, but there are some places in northern Africa that get pretty close to being on a boundary.
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∙ 13y agoThe Australian and Antarctic plates. Hope to have helped you! :)
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∙ 12y agoThe Australian and Antarctic Boundary's.
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∙ 11y agoAfrica and Antartica
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∙ 12y agoAustralia is not on a plate boundary.
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