South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent. The Tropic of Capricorn also runs through South America. The Pacific Ocean ...

The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America. Ringmann didn't have long to live after finishing the Introduction to Cosmography.

A new map of the South ... pairs of penguins. The South Orkney Islands lie roughly 650km north-east of the Antarctic Peninsula and 1250km south-east of South America. The British research station ...

1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations. 1739: The Stono rebellion breaks out around Charleston ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America ... about 400 miles to the south in modern-day Honduras.

President Donald Trump, speaking at the White House, held up a chart showing proposed import taxes: 34 percent on China, 20 ...