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Subject: Re: [OM] OT:aussie v greenland: island continent
From: "Wiliam Wagenaar" <wiliam2@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:34:28 +0200
Ron wrote:
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>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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AFAIK an island is called a continent whe it is so big that it does have a
distincive land climate. This is very true with Australia.

Wiliam Wagenaar,
Middelburg NL


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