Re: [Paddlewise] On Island, Continents, etc.

Natalie,

If Chris Duff reads this, you're responsible for causing his next 10 trips.

jerry.


At 10:20 AM 05/23/2000 -0500, Natalie Wiest wrote:
>Y'all got me curious on this one, so I headed out into ye olde library stacks,
>whisked A dictionary of geography (F.J. Monkhouse, 1970) off the shelf, and
>here's what it had to say:
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>island:  A piece of land surrounded by water, smaller than a continent... the
>largest islands are Greenland (2.2 million sq. km or 840,000 sq. mi.), New
>Guinea (820,00 sq. km;  317,000 sq. mi.) and Borneo ((750,000 sq km;  287,000
>sq mi).
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>The Encyclopedia Ameriana rounds out the rest of the "top 10" list with
>Madagascar at 590,000 sq.km or 227,800 sq mi;  Baffin at 476,000 sq km or
>183,800 sq mi;  Sumatra at 473,700 sq km or 182,900 sq mi;  Honshu, Great
>Britain, Ellesmere, and Victoria in that order.
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>continent  One of the earth's major constituent land-mases, composed of sialic
>rocks, rising from the ocean floor.  Structurally it includes shallowly
>submerged adjacent areas (the Continental shelf) and neighbouring islands;  in
>this sense, the continents occupy 30% of the earth's surface.  Actual dry land
>comprises about 29%.
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>FWIW
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>Natalie Wiest
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>Pelican Island/Galveston Island TX USA  
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