ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS OF DUTCH NAMES. Difficulty is sometimes experienced in the examination of church records in this region (and the same occurs in the records in family Bibles and inscriptions on tombstones) by the want of familiarity with Dutch nomenclature.
Split and merge into it. Answered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. Africa is called the tropical continent because of its rainforests and warm to hot moist climates.plit and merge into it. Answered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. Africa is called the tropical continent because of its rainforests and warm to hot moist climates.
In fact, the climate of Africa is more dependent to rainfall amount than to temperatures as they are consistently high. African deserts are the sunniest and the driest parts of the continent due to the prevailing presence of the subtropical ridge with subsiding, hot, dry air masses.