↑Wigen, Martin W. Lewis; Kären E.. The myth of continents : a critique of metageography. Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]: University of California Press, p. 31–32. ISBN 0-520-20743-2. «While a few professionals may regard Europe as a mere peninsula of Asia (or Eurasia), most geographers—and almost all nongeographers—continue to treat it not only as a full-fledged continent, but as the archetypal continent.»