My list of the top 10 Islands
| Island | Location | Square Miles | Square Km’s |
| 1. Greenland | North America | 840,000 | 2,176,000 |
| 2. New Guinea | Oceania | 312,000 | 809,000 |
| 3. Borneo | Asia | 288,000 | 746,000 |
| 4. Madagascar | Africa | 227,000 | 587,000 |
| 5. Baffin Island | North America | 196,000 | 507,000 |
| 6. Sumatra | Asia | 183,000 | 474,000 |
| 7. Honshu | Asia | 88,000 | 227,000 |
| 8. Great Britain | Europe | 84,000 | 218,000 |
| 9. Victoria Island | North America | 84,000 | 217,000 |
| 10. Ellesmere Island | North America | 76,000 | 196,000 |
I have rounded the size of these Islands to the nearest thousand square miles/kilometres, due to so many different results of land mass sizes that I found for each island.
What is an island ?
A piece of land surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
That explains why Australia and the Americas are not on the list.
Or does it ?
How do we define a continent ?
In geography, there is no clear definition that distinguishes an island from a continent, other than saying that an island is smaller than a continent.
There are either 6 or 7 continents depending on where you were taught geography. Or are there only 4 or 5 ???
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