What is the world's largest island?

[Dame Edna]

............on our planet

Australia is neither an island nor a continent, it is a planet.

Unlike that frozen waste............................

 

[Shekwan]

Everyone knows the world's largest island is New Guinea.

 

[CivLuvah]

Greenland is a Island
Australia the main continental landmass of the Continent Australasia or Oceania.
Not an Island, not excatly a continent alone

Wow. You're the only person I know from a former British colony that accepts the idea of Greenland being an island. Americans think that Australia is a continent. Even though I live in the Asia-Pacific region like you, I personally believe that Australia is a continent in itself.

 

[sysyphus]

Unlike that frozen waste............................

It's still bigger than that farting little thing you call a country.

 

[Dame Edna]

It's still bigger than that farting little thing you call a country.

Ever heard of quality over quantity?

 

[aluka]

What are they teaching in schools now? When I went through, we were taught that Australia was both an island and a continent and was the only landmass that had that distinction.

What about Antarctica? Everyone is forgetting about Antarctica.

 

[LucyDuke]

What about Antarctica? Everyone is forgetting about Antarctica.

I will never forget about Antarctica.

 

[sysyphus]

Ever heard of quality over quantity?

You mean something like lush boreal forests, majestic mountains, fresh lakes, and roaring rivers vs a big patch of desert? Good point.

 

[Arwon]

rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and.... waterrrrr.

 

[Benefactor]

Australia is a very large island.
Australasia is a continent.

Thats what I think on the matter.

 

[Volum]

I have always been told that Greenland is the worlds largest island, because Australia is a continent. I always thought that was universally agreed. But then again the Norwegian education system has told me a lot of strange things before.

 

[scy12]

I always thought that Australia was both a continent and an island.

 

[Dame Edna]

I always thought that Australia was both a continent and an island.

That makes you sharper than alot of the beachballs around here.

 

[choxorn]

Couldn't we just wait a couple hundred million years for the landmasses to form another Pangea? That would make this debate easier.

We don't have to, the Bering Strait should become a land bridge again the next time there's an ice age. 15,000 years, maybe?

And as for the silly discussion of where the island/continent boundary thing is, I hereby declare that all landmasses are both islands and continents, whether they are as large as Eurasica or as small as an undersea mountain that, above the surface, is only 1 square feet in area.

I also arbitrarily declare that a jelly donut tastes good.

 

[scy12]

I claim that all landmasses that are smaller than the Eurasian , African and American continents/landmasses and are surrounded by water are islands.

 

[Onionsoilder]

I declare that this is stupid.

 

[CivLuvah]

I declare that this is stupid.

No. You're stupid. You killjoy. This is a healthy debate with a little bit of humor & you just ruin it for everybody. Thanks a lot. You KILLJOY!

 

[choxorn]

Civ4Luvah, must you continue flaming people?

 

[ANDL33]

Australia because it's just a little more awesome.

Also, Greenland lies to you about the colour of their country.

Australia = biggest island.
Win.

 

[CivLuvah]

Australia because it's just a little more awesome.

Also, Greenland lies to you about the colour of their country.

Australia = biggest island.
Win.

Huh??????????????