Talk:List of islands by area

Landmasses surrounded by rivers and the ocean

In South America, there is a natural river, the Casiquiare canal, that flows from the Orinoco River to the Rio Negro and thence the Amazon. Is the landmass, surrounded by these rivers and the ocean, not an island? Grassynoel (talk) 16:29, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Landmasses like this are also technically islands, but we are not treating them as islands. It is funny that we humans can successfully land ourselves on the Moon, but we can't reach a consensus for the definition of continent and island. 203.174.173.6 (talk) 06:51, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Well, if we include that "island", we would also have to include:

-All of northern Canada and Alaska

-A large portion of NW Germany

-Most of the USA and Canada (which would probably be big enough to be a whole new continent)

-A large part of the SE Balkan peninsula

-A large part of northern Suriname

-A large part of northern Sweden

-A large section of India and Bangladesh

-A large section of India and Nepal

-Most of southern Louisiana

-A large part of the Netherlands

So I don't think "islands" made by river bifurcations should count because then the list would be filled with large landmasses that nobody would think of as islands. TurkeyCookTime (talk) 17:16, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Agreed. The Korean Peninsula would be a big island under this system too. 120.16.31.155 (talk) 23:53, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Bear Island

I don't think that Bear Island is nearly as big as stated here or if it even exists, after looking around some I found that basically every source detailing the island is word for word the exact same so it probably comes from only one source and this source doesn't say anything about it's size. If you go to the coordinates that are on the source it will put you right off the coast of Antarctica in the ocean. On places like Earth or Maps, there is something south of it named Bear that it says is an island but most maps show it as being attached to Antarctica and I couldn't find anywhere else saying it was an island or that it's actual name was Bear. The sources state that it's somewhere near Graham's Land or Marguerite Bay yet no maps of the region even name the island. Lastly, the source used in this actual article for the biggest Antarctic Islands says that Bear Island is larger then Adelaide Island, which actually kind of acts as seperator between Graham's land and Marguerite Bay and is much easier to see then Bear Island and is named in basically every map or source about the area. Hestoriboi (talk) 18:59, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Flags

Why are the flags removed? It was much easier to search for islands in a special country when the flags was there. Please add them again! Karriuss (talk) 22:25, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Britain

Why is Great Britain now at number 7 with 230,000 km^2, instead of at number 9 with 209,000 km^2 like it used to be? Dabatman565 (talk) 03:11, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

This is especially odd as the map gives it as 9 as well 90.203.144.224 (talk) 16:26, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Berkner Island not an Island?

Berkner Island wiki entry suggest that if the ice is removed then all of the island would be under water, making it an Ice Rise instead of an Island. Looking at some other sources I can find no definite answers, but ice cores drilled from dome of Thyssenhöhe (869m) reached further down than sea level (948m), indicating that indeed the entire island is beneath sea level. 151.183.2.206 (talk) 12:32, 26 January 2024 (UTC)