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Greenland is the biggest island, by a large factor.
by stuckagain 10y ago
Greenland is the biggest island, by a large factor.
- bluedevil2k 10y agoIs Australia not an island?
- vkou 10y agoIt's a continent. Otherwise, we may as well call North America an island.
- peeters 10y agoWell, since you bring it up, Australia isn't connected to another continent by land like North America is (as are Europe, Africa, and Asia). You'd have to say "the Americas" are an island, or "Afro-Eurasia"
- thrownblown 10y agoYou people are silly. If Australia is an island, then Antarctica wins. 'Nuff said. ANTARCTICA 5,400,000 sq mi AUSTRALIA 2,969,900 sq mi GREENLAND 836,330 sq mi
- peeters 10y ago...I never said it wasn't? I was just objecting to calling North America an island.
- beojan 10y agoHe was referring to the fact that Antarctica isn't connected to any other continent either.
- peeters 10y agoI know, and I never said it was--hence my confusion at being called silly for my post (which was purely objecting to calling North America an island, since it IS connected by land).
- manojlds 10y agoHow? Isn't it connected to South America?
- loeg 10y agoModulo the Panama canal.
- mturmon 10y agoWhat about the two non-swinging bridges across the Panama Canal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Bridge,_Panama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Bridge,_Panama) -- soon to be three? If the man-made separation counts, the man-made connection should too.
- baddox 10y agoIt's not man-made land though.
- vkou 10y agoIf we want to be pedantic about whether or not the Panama Canal turns North America into an island or not, we can change the argument, and ask whether or not the Americas are an island.
- codingdave 10y agoWhat about just the eastern USA, then? It is fully split by rivers and lakes to the north and west, and oceans to the east and south...