Whats the largest island in the world?

Answer 1

It is Greenland.

NOT Australia, the artic or antartica!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

let's first look at the definition of an island:

"a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent"

According to Wikipedia, Greenland is the largest island, even though Australia has a much larger area it is not considered as an island - it is the smallest continent on the planet. I think the defintion of an island is a bit vaguely defined,

see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland

Answer 3

Australia is the world's largest Island.

All those who said Greenland should refer to how big Greenland is on an oblique spheroid globe, as opposed to the 2 dimensional maps in their atlas.

Antartica (contrary to answer above) is NOT all ice, it has mountains and solid rock beneath a vast amount of it, however, it's "size" is vastly icreased by the ice shelves which extend out into the ocean from it's coast.

Answer 4

Australia

Answer 5

Australia

Answer 6

Eurasia (if you count the Suez as a boundary)

more conventional answers would be Australia or (smaller) Madagascar. It's just a question of where you draw the line between "island" and "er... something bigger than an island". There's no formal definition.

Answer 7

America

Answer 8

Australia.

Answer 9

The country of Greenland, all of the others mentioned are continents and are not considered merely 'islands'.

Answer 10

It is in fact Greenland, not Australia. Antarctica is all ice, so technically not an island.

Answer 11

It depends on your definition of island, because technically it would be Asia and Europe, as 80% of the world is water.