Originally posted by Anton The Penguin:
Why is Greenland an island? Seriously, it's huge, and yet they call it an 'island'...and then New Guinea, Madagscar, Honshu, Luzon, Sumatra, Borneo, Baffin Island, Victoria Island, Cuba, UK, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Sicily, New Zealand, Hokkaido, Celebes, Ellesmere Island, Tasmania, Java, Hispaniola, Crete, Cyprus, Newfoundland, Corsica, Iceland, Jamaica...why are these islands?
An island is a mass of land surrounded by water on all sides; not connected to another body of land. That is why Manhattan is an island, and Hawaii, which is a series of tiny islands, as well as Ireland and Great Britain (the British Isles) and all the other gigantic ones that stretch for miles, preventing it's inhabitants to see the water.
As the saying goes - size doesn't matter.
Apple
I am a Rock; I am an Island
