ANSWERS: 6
  • Are you kidding?? An island.
  • How about a Continent?
  • Well, it depends how big "large" is for you. It could be an island or a continent. (Technically, is a continent an island? Hmm.)
  • An island. However, on Earth, some extremely large landmasses, group of large landmasses or part of large landmasses are sometimes defined as Earth's continents, and for this reason will be rather called continents than islands (Australia, Antarctica, America, Afro-Eurasia). If it is bigger than Greenland, it is a continent. 1) "An island (IPA: /ˈaɪlÉ™nd/) or isle (/ˈaɪl/) is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water in two dimensions, above high tide, and isolated from other significant landmasses. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets. " "There is no standard of size which distinguishes islands from islets and continents." "When defining islands as pieces of land that are completely surrounded by water, narrow bodies of water like rivers and canals are generally left out of consideration." "This also helps explain why Africa-Eurasia can be seen as one continuous landmass (and thus technically the biggest island): generally the Suez Canal is not seen as something that divides the land mass in two. Australia is often considered the largest islands because it is covered on all sides by water while not being connected to another body of land." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island 2) "A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents – they are (from largest in size to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia." " Depending on the convention and model, some continents may be consolidated or subdivided: for example, Eurasia is often subdivided into Europe and Asia (red shades), while North and South America are sometimes recognized as one American continent " "As a cultural construct, the concept of a continent may go beyond the continental shelf to include oceanic islands and continental fragments. In this way, Iceland is considered part of Europe and Madagascar part of Africa. Extrapolating the concept to its extreme, some geographers take Australia, New Zealand and all the islands of Oceania (or sometimes Australasia) to be equivalent to a continent, allowing the entire land surface of the Earth to be divided into continents or quasi-continents." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent 3) "Greenland is the world's largest island, and is the largest dependent territory by area in the world." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland
  • Island. Homework question?
  • Gilligan's Island.

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