What is the world’s largest island?

Answer 1

Greenland, Australia is a continent, as is Asia

Answer 2

The World largest Island is Greenland

Answer 3

Greenland is the worlds largest Island

Answer 4

What is the world's largest island?
At 840,000 square miles (2,175,590 km2), Greenland is the world's largest island.

Although Australia also meets the definition of an island (a piece of land surrounded by water), it is large enough to be considered its own continent.

So, Australia is, by definition, also an island.

Answer 5

Greenland, Australia is a continent.

It's interesting to imagine that if the oceans were to slowly drain away, as the percentage of Earths surface covered by water dipped below 50%, we wouldn't be talking about which is the largest island, but which is the largest lake.

And then lakes would be islands of water?

Answer 6

Greenland is the world's largest island at 2,130,800 square kilometers (822,700 square miles).

The ten largest islands are:
1. Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) - 2,130,800 km²
2. New Guinea - 785,753 km²
3. Borneo - 748,168 km²
4. Madagascar - 587,713 km²
5. Baffin Island - 507,451 km²
6. Sumatera (Sumatra) - 443,066 km²
7. Honshu - 225,800 km²
8. Victoria Island - 217,291 km²
9. Great Britain - 209,331 km²
10. Ellesmere Island - 196,236 km²

Answer 7

At 840,000 square miles (2,175,590 km2), Greenland is the world's largest island.
Although Australia also meets the definition of an island (a piece of land surrounded by water), it is large enough to be considered its own continent.

Answer 8

At 840,000 square miles (2,175,590 km2), Greenland is the world's largest island.
Although Australia also meets the definition of an island (a piece of land surrounded by water), it is large enough to be considered its own continent.

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Answer 9

Fantasy Island!

Answer 10

Greenland: 2,130,800km² - 822,706sq mi. Greenland is a self-governed territory of Denmark

The largest island in the world, Greenland has a maximum length, from its northernmost point on Cape Morris Jesup to Cape Farewell in the extreme south, of about 2,655 km (1,650 mi). The maximum distance from east to west is about 1,290 km (800 mi). The length of Greenland's coast, which is deeply indented with fiords, is estimated at 5,800 km (3,600 mi). The total area of Greenland is approximately 2,166,100 sq km (836,115 sq mi), of which about 81 per cent, or some 1,755,640 sq km (677,675 sq mi), is ice cap.

Answer 11

Australia