Wiliam Wagenaar wrote:
>
> Ron wrote:
> -----
> >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
> -----
> 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
......should be Australasia which includes New Zealand. Australia on its
own is not a continent.
jh
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