Why did I learn Australia was the biggest island?

Question

I looked it up and saw Greenland was bigger. Did teachers lie to me or are they just idiots. I'm an ESL teacher now so I know they ain't all the best minds.

Answer 1

Picture the earth as a globe. It's smaller at the poles, right? Now, take that globe and stretch it out so that it makes a rectangle. By doing this, you're going to artificially make the very north and very south artificially larger. Don't go by maps, go by the globe. Australia is a continent and is very much larger than Greenland, which is the largest island on earth.

Answer 2

Greenland is 840,004 sq miles. Australia is 2,941,517 sq miles. Australia is sometimes considered a continent (and therefore not an island) in its own right because it's so big. Greenland looks bigger on a map because atlasses use a strange scale in order to get a three-dimensional round object (the earth) on a flat square piece of paper. Objects closer to the poles appear bigger than they actually are.

Answer 3

Did it look bigger, or did it has geographic dimensions bigger than Australia's. Also look up the definitions of an island. Maybe Greenland doesnt qualify. Australia qualifies as an island because it's entire land mass is one country. And it qualifies as a continent I think because it is split up into States. I learnt that Australia was the worlds biggest island too. Greenland didnt grow and Australia didnt shrink, so there must be some reasoning behind it.

Answer 4

Australia is a continent. Greenland is an island. As islands go, Greenland is the biggest.

Answer 5

you could write approximately the way it started as a huge penal complex and all of us has descended from the unique criminals and thus it relatively is an exceedingly risky place via fact there is alot of crime and violence. Plus each and all the animals are deadly like the sharks and snakes and etc. and how they dont like New Zealand peoples

Answer 6

It's just not right