ok.....so if England is neither an Island Nor a Penninsula, what is No Man...is it an Island or Penninsula?LOL

Question

They say No Man is an Island....is it?

Answer 1

The quotation is from John Donne and you have misrepresented it by shortening the first phrase. The full quotation is:

No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Answer 2

England (i suppose you mean the British Isles) has been an integral part of the European continent, until the last big global warming (yes, there was one; the times before they called the "ice age", around 20,000 years ago), when the glaciers melted and the British Channel (which the French call "la manche") was flooded. First, the isles were separated from the mainland, and then, slowly, Ireland got separated from the rest of Britain. That took a few years, of course, until Henry the Normand in 1066 discovered how to build ships. Or so I was taught at school.

But, if there hadn't been a global flooding, what would have happened? Alaska would have been invaded by the Russians via the then-existing land bridge to Siberia. Not a really thrilling perspective, is it?

So, England and the rest of the British Isles, in a geological sense, stay what they are: Part of the continental European plate, where just by accident some water has come in between. Which might disappear in a few hundred years, if global warming theories are right. (The French and Spanish, actually, are not looking forward to this. They have some bills to pay. And, actually, we Germans don't either. I mean, look forward.)

Answer 3

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Who said England is not an island? And why did you ask this in the Australian Section?

Answer 4

England is entire unto itself.

Answer 5

WTF???

This is the Australian section.

Thanks for the 2 points though.

Cheers :)

Answer 6

You're asking this in an Australian Travel section...

Your question's been reported.

Answer 7

Another yank.