North America
North America was a continent on the planet Earth, located above Central and South America. It was originally inhabited by the Native Americans. (TV: "The Sea of Death") The Americas were separated from Europe and Africa to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. (TV: War of the Sontarans) Several UNIT bases were established in North America by the 21st century. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
Geography
The Americas were located within the Western Hemisphere, to the west of the prime meridian and to the east of the International Date Line. (TV: Fear Her [+]Loading...["Fear Her (TV story)"]) North America was located within the Northern Hemisphere, above the Equator which ran through the northern part of South America. (TV: Fear Her [+]Loading...["Fear Her (TV story)"])
North America included the bordering nations of America (TV: Dalek, Revenge of the Slitheen) and Mexico. (TV: The Zygon Invasion) The Bering Strait ran between East Russia and Alaska, (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia) the latter of which was called the "stepping stone between America and Asia" by the Fifth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead)
The Mississippi was the longest river in North America, and, in the time of the Old West, people used to romance, talk, fish, and gamble to occupy their time. (COMIC: The Greatest Gamble [+]Loading...{"page":"39","1":"The Greatest Gamble (comic story)"})
Utah, the 45th State of America, was located on the western side of North America. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (2007 reference book)"])
Flora and fauna
Environmental changes caused the extinction of the Diplodocus in the late Jurassic period, and the Dromaeosaurus and Ankylosaurus in the late Cretaceous. The sabre-toothed tiger went extinct c. 9000 BC due to climate change causing a loss of prey (PROSE: The Last Dodo [+]Loading...["The Last Dodo (novel)"])
In the 19th century, Sir George MacLeish reconstructed the central Great Staircase of Torchwood House with timber from the North American torchwood tree. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])
History
Prehistory
In the Cretaceous, the northern continent of Laurasia, which itself was once part of Pangaea along with Gondwana, began to split into what would become North America and Asia, whilst Gondwana split into South America, Antarctica, Australia and India. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])
Whilst most ankylosaurids were found in what would be eastern Asia, the Ankylosaurus was found in North America, primarily in what would be Montana, Wyoming, the Western USA, and Alberta, Canada. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])
The joining of North and South America caused a competition for prey which resulted in the extinction of the Phorusrhacos in 20 million BC. (PROSE: The Last Dodo [+]Loading...["The Last Dodo (novel)"]) According to one account, North and South America joined for the first time during the Pliocene. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])
Early history
The Wild West saw the spread of European settlers across North America. (PROSE: A History of Humankind [+]Loading...["A History of Humankind (novel)"])
21st century
In the 2000s, transducers used by the Slitheen briefly caused a massive power loss stretching westwards from the West Coast of North America, including Los Angeles. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
By the 2000s, North America was part of the worldwide nuclear grid overseen by UNIT. (TV: The Poison Sky)
In the 2010s, the Mexico border was among the places where newly-hatched Zygons were settled across Earth as part of Operation Double, resulting in a minority of Zygons residing in New Mexico, USA under the pretence of being British migrants. (TV: The Zygon Invasion)
The North American blizzard occurred in March 2017. (PROSE: Time Lapse)
22nd century
In the 2190s, the Daleks dug up most of North America to build a mineshaft through which they could place a propulsion unit at the planet's core. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller, To the Death)
Parallel universe
In Roma I, Marcus Americanius Scriptor's family ruled Northern America from their family home since Marcus' great-great-grandfather Americanus was sent to quell a republican revolution 140 years before Marcus' birth. When Marcus was ten years old, he wrote a three-volume history of America and its people. 100 million people lived in America at this time. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)
Other references
While undercover at the Pharm, "Samantha Jones" claimed North America among the places she had visited. (TV: Reset)
