Here's the deal about Australia. Instead of going on about how it's a continent and not an island, why not celebrate the fact that it's the only inhabited continent that is an island!
Not that I'd like to be a downer, but then where would you put the line fall between Australia and the continental landmasses of Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, and the Americas? (Genuine question.)
If Australia is an island, so is Antarctica, which is bigger. And the Americas are an even bigger island. And Africo-Eurasia is the world's largest island. See what happens when you consider continents islands?
So, just to play devil's advocate, what is the definition of a continent? What makes Australia, one landmass, a continent and the next-smallest landmass, Greenland, only an island?
I'm not sure there's a widely accepted standard, but the way I see it, each continent has one continental landmass. For example, the continental landmass of Europe would be Afro-Eurasia. Australia would be the continental landmass of Oceania. The landmasses that are not continental landmasses are islands.
Australia is a continent!!! "Australia and Oceania" is a region and continent of Australia is a part of that region. Eurasia and Africa are the same land mass (later separated by humans) but divided into 3 continents based on cultural differences. Cyprus is geographically considered to be part of southwest Asia but from cultural pov (Greek culture) it belongs to Europe.
Also The United Kingdom can not be an answer for Great Britain for it is a country that finds itself on that island. If it were an answer, you could name Hispaniola Haiti or Sumatra Indonesia...
I trust jetpunkers will not be too bored but:......... UK is a sovereign country that includes Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and many included islands. This quiz asks for the name of the 'Island' shown. The name of the island shown is 'Great Britain' ..... similarly the island of Manhattan cannot be called USA.
The island is called Great Britain, just because you don't know that fact does not make it wrong........... If it could be called UK then Ireland the Island could also be called UK as part of UK is Northern Ireland.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but some folks might argue that Australia is a continent. Also, other people might want you to accept UK or England for Britain. But again, I'm not sure if anyone has already brought these points up over and over again yet. Just in case, I thought I'd mention it.
And also, I'm not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, but Hawaii is an island chain. But maybe this has been repeatedly pointed out without any researching done and is objectively false. I don't know.
I always confuse New Guinea and Hispaniola. I know full well the 1st is a smooshed parallelogram and the 2nd has that gianormous bay in Haiti, but it still gets me.
I got every one except Hawaii. Then saw that random fact that appears on the bottom of every quiz, it said "Hawaii is the only US state that produces coffee commercially." Typed Hawaii, got it at the last second.
No, because UK is not an island, and neither is Papua New Guinea. I understand that many people confuse the UK for Great Britain, but it really isn't. Also, Indonesia takes up half of New Guinea, so saying that Indonesia is part of Papua New Guinea is like saying Ireland is part of the UK. It isn't
Clicked on this quiz, saw Australia as an island, and said "What the heck is Australia doing on here aren't they technically a continent?" (although I consider Oceania as the continent Australia is in)
Definitions of continents are not agreed upon anyway - I consider Australia to be part of Oceania