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23 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:

Literally every person in the world comes from an island, even if it's a really big one involving dozens of countries.

OK Sheldon Cooper stop spoiling the other kids' fun! 

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On 18/02/2023 at 22:31, Monkey Tennis said:

Literally every person in the world comes from an island, even if it's a really big one involving dozens of countries.

Do they though? At what point does an "island" become a continental land mass?

Not by any means something I have any expertise on but surely taking your point to its logical conclusion, if the entire planet was a solid land mass apart from one big lake would it be an island?

I know better than to rely on Wiki with any certainty but it says:

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There is a widely accepted difference between islands and continents in terms of geology.[6] Continents are often considered to be the largest landmass of a particular continental plate; this holds true for Australia, which sits on its own continental lithosphere and tectonic plate (the Australian Plate).[7]

By contrast, islands are usually seen as being extensions of the oceanic crust (e.g. volcanic islands), or as belonging to a continental plate containing a larger landmass (continental islands); the latter is the case of Greenland, which sits on the North American Plate.[8]

 

Hence why Greenland is generally accepted as being the largest island.

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