Gregg giverson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx asks: what makes Australia a continent,
Greenland an island? What is cutoff for island size?
Que? How long is a piece of string? For all my life, including school,
Australia has been called Island or Continent. I dont think there is any
specific limit, if bigger than Australia = continent, smaller and surrounded
by water = Island; Greenland is about 1/3 the size of Australia.
Australia is both smallest continent and biggest Island! By the way we
also have the world's biggest rock / monolith in Western Australia, Mt
Augustus, not the popularly publicised Ayers Rock / Uluru, in Northern
Territory; which is however more spectacular.
Some day I will go to each with trusty Olympus or three:- OM4, Ace, XA,
FTL??
Ron Ligtermoet
dlanor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
WESTERN Australia
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