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Islands in lakes in islands in lakes ...
- vibragiel 16y agoSomebody should go to Vulcan point in Crater Lake and pee so we could have the largest lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island :-)
- vmind 16y agoJust lakes and islands, all the way down.
- vladev 16y agoPure lake and island oriented.
- jiganti 16y agoClassic example of where records are set down to the point where the definitions get hazy.
- pilif 16y agohow is this relevant content for Hacker News?
- pclark 16y agoover 40 people think its relevant
- Mz 16y agoMy first thought when reading the question was "Ooh, shiny!". But I didn't think anyone would get it and it would get downvoted as smart-assed. More eloquently: I think it falls under "anything engaging" (or whatever that phrase is in the guidelines).
- paulgb 16y agoTrue, but I bet over 40 people think it's irrelevant, too. Without downvoting, the number of votes does not imply relevance.
- shrikant 16y agoNot really - if over 40 people thought it was truly irrelevant, it would be flagged to death.
- paulgb 16y agoNot all users can flag, and flagging is more to deal with spam and trolling. (The guidelines mention offtopic posts as well, but community consensus is that flagging is not downvoting.)
- chc 16y agoFlagging is not downvoting, but it is the sanctioned way to register your opinion that some content does not belong on the site. If your efforts to combat off-topic posts are limited to ranting in the comments after they're posted, it's too late.
- timinman 16y agoWhat if I had a dream of a larger island in a lake on an island in a lake? What if I dreamt I had a dream...
- roqetman 16y agoSounds like someone channeling Dr. Seuss
- mattcole 16y agoHow is Australia not an island? It's way bigger than Greenland.
- colinprince 16y agoIn the english speaking world we refer to Australia as a continent, but I just saw a kid's encyclopedia from France which refers to Australia as an island. There oughtta be 7 continents; without Aust there'd only be 6 :(
- winthrowe 16y agoperhaps because it has it's own tectonic plate and thus is no longer just an island?
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- DrJokepu 16y agoUsing this logic, Eurasia could be considered an island as well. You have to draw the line somewhere. They're all empiric definitions anyway.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoFor those who are interested in size comparisons, here's an interesting projection of the globe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dymaxion_map_unfolded.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dymaxion_map_unfolded.png
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- Daniel_Newby 16y agoGoogle Maps. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=14.009076,120.996069&spn=0.003498,0.006866&t=k&z=18 http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=14.0090...
- paulitex 16y agoFinally - indisputable proof that lisp was, in fact, the language from which the Gods wrought the universe. http://xkcd.com/224/ http://xkcd.com/224/
- AlexMuir 16y agoHow would you even go about finding this data out?
- pchristensen 16y agoDon't forget Isle Royale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_Royale#Interior_lakes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_Royale#Interior_lakes "Siskiwit Lake, largest lake on the island; cold, deep, clear, and relatively low in nutrients. Siskiwit Lake contains several islands, including Ryan Island, the largest therein, which itself contains Moose Flats, a seasonal pond, which contains Moose Boulder. When Moose Flats is a pond, Moose Boulder becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world."
- btilly 16y agoI know this is straight from Wikipedia, but it is incorrect because the Caspian Sea is the largest lake. If you measure by volume, lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake. If you measure by area, lakes Michigan and Huron are technically one lake, and that lake is larger than Superior. So there are a lot of reasons to dispute that Superior is the largest lake in the world. All the rest is true though. :-)
- pchristensen 16y agoI know, but it's so much fun to say :)
- CountHackulus 16y agoI can't believe that no one's tried to make an Xzibit joke yet. This either shows that HNers are 2 years behind in internet memes, or have the common sense to not use them everywhere.
- dimarco 16y agoyo dawg --- Ugh, look what you've made me do.
- niels_bom 16y agoFunny, the Elbruz site is made by my employer (http://www.mijnlieff.nl/index.php?c=wie&p=arie&pc=&pp= http://www.mijnlieff.nl/index.php?c=wie&p=arie&pc=&#...)
- nato1138 16y agomanitou island. wow. that takes me back. went there when I was a boy and had the best time. i stood on that lake shore (on the island) and cursed the rain that came down for hours.
- asmosoinio 16y agoThe Volcano Lake at Taal is a pretty interesting place -- it is a volcano, with the smallish crater lake, all inside the crater of a bigger volcano. Went there last year, a beautiful place.
- andrewingram 16y agoI like this, its awesomeness increase proportionally to its silliness. It's also interesting that even on a planet as big (or objectively as small) as ours, you can only go a few levels deep with this kind of research.
- bosch 16y agoI kept thinking of those Russian dolls...