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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