Very surprised at some. Some close calls that I found were USA (Big Island -10,434 km2 and Kodiak Island - 9,310 km2), Denmark (Greenland - 2,130,800 km2 and Qeqertarsuaq (Disko) - 8,612 km2), and Chile (Isla Grande Tierra del Fuego - 47,401 km2 and Chiloe - 8,478).
Really makes the American inside me have to learn the metric system :P
no, jetpunk doesn't consider Taiwan separate (it's complicated, consider looking up the history of the Republic of China), and i dont think Hong Kong is big enough
No, Jetpunk undoubtedly considers Taiwan to be its own country. Most, if not all of the quizzes on here include Taiwan as a separate country from China.
Sadly, the Big Island is the only one that is bigger than 10,000 km². Puerto Rico (and some islands in Alaska I guess) miss the cut by less than 1,000 km²
I never realised papua new guinea had another island than the one it shares.... It is nice to learn something new ! the last time was a few months ago when I first got on this site, on the countries of the world quiz, embarrassed to say, some of the countries were new to me.. But I have remembered all of them since :)
The main island of New Caledonia is the only one over 10,000 km2 (16,000+). Corsica is 8,000+ and the biggest of the Kerguelen islands is 6,000+. The others, including french departments, all are less than 3,000.
I appreciate questions like this might start wars, but why is it OK to include all of Ireland as part of the UK, and not any of Taiwan as part of China? And why do none of the Antarctic claims count? Its almost as though some quizzes need to explain the political position of the quizmaster in order to eliminate the red herrings.
The UK has Northern Ireland, while China doesn't have any portion of Taiwan. And for Antarctica, there is a treaty that doesn't recognize any claim on the continent. And it's a continent, not an island, so it doesn't matter here anyway.
I get that Australia isn't considered an island and all but the reasoning doesn't make sense to me. Basically Australia isn't considered an Islands because it's as large as a continent. However even if the Suez and Panama canals are considered (which are man made) Eurasia counts as it is a connected land mass. Based off that Australia would be smaller than every other continent including Antarctica. Therefore the argument to not classify Australia as an island doesn't make sense, as it is all based off the idea that 2 connected landmasses aren't considered 1 continent.
Every other continent has a mainland and adjacent islands. Why should Australia (Oceania) be comprised only of islands? Why would it even be called a continent then?
First off: "continents" are a convenient convention, how many continents there are varies around the world and only even started in order to distinguish three shorelines of the Mediterranean from each other. There's no set of "rules" which will "make sense" to everyone because at some point, it comes down to arbitrary judgement calls and what people think "feels" right. But it's for sure the case that (for example), we consider North American and South America to be distinct continents, and that's certainly not universal around the world.
The main reason that people who don't consider Australia to be an island think that way is that we would like to consider it to be part of a continent, along with Oceania--in order to make things neat and tidy, not in order to elucidate some deep geographical truth. Each continent has a main land mass which isn't, on its own considered an island. For Oceania, Australia is that land mass.
Brazil is a tricky one. Bananal is not much known even between the average Brazilians. Is an island formed by Javaés and Araguaia rivers (world's biggest fluvial island also), in the transition between amazon rainforest and the Brazilian savannah (cerrado).
It was all going fine until I have one left.... After mentally picturing a map for ages, eventually had to give up. Darn Brazil! Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years.
I think I'm blind because why do i just put brazil as a joke and it worked. I even have the world map in front of me and i dont see any brazilian island
Really makes the American inside me have to learn the metric system :P
https://www.11v11.com/teams/iceland/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Denmark/
100%!!!!!!!!
The UK has Northern Ireland, while China doesn't have any portion of Taiwan. And for Antarctica, there is a treaty that doesn't recognize any claim on the continent. And it's a continent, not an island, so it doesn't matter here anyway.
The main reason that people who don't consider Australia to be an island think that way is that we would like to consider it to be part of a continent, along with Oceania--in order to make things neat and tidy, not in order to elucidate some deep geographical truth. Each continent has a main land mass which isn't, on its own considered an island. For Oceania, Australia is that land mass.
That's really it: convenience in grouping.
The island is formed by the Billabong, Edward and Murrumbidgee river systems. If that island is counted, then Australia should be in this list.