List of islands by area
This list of islands by area includes all islands in the world greater than 2,500 km2 (970 sq mi) and several other islands over 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi), sorted in descending order by area. For comparison, continents are also shown.
Contents
- 1 Continental landmasses
- 2 Islands
- 2.1 Islands 100,000 km2 (39,000 sq mi) and greater
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- 2.3 Islands テンプレート:Convert/-/AonSoff (テンプレート:Convert/-/AonSoff)
- 2.4 Islands テンプレート:Convert/-/AonSoff (テンプレート:Convert/-/AonSoff)
- 2.5 Islands テンプレート:Convert/-/AonSoff (テンプレート:Convert/-/AonSoff)
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- 3 See also
- 4 Notes
- 5 Footnotes
- 6 References
Continental landmasses
Although the continental landmasses listed below are not normally called islands (by definition a landmass cannot be both an island and a continent), they are, in fact, land entirely surrounded by water. In effect, they are enormous islands and are shown here for that reason. The figures are approximations and are for the continental mainland only.
Rank | Landmass | Area
(km2) !! class="unsortable" | Area (sq mi) !! Country or countries | ||
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1 | Afro-Eurasia | 84,980,532 | 32,811,167 | Various |
2 | Americas | 42,549,000 | 16,428,000 | Various |
3 | Antarctica[Note 1] | 14,000,000 | テンプレート:Rnd/c6dec0 | None (various countries have territorial claims) |
4 | Australia[Note 2] | 7,692,024 | 2,969,907 | オーストラリア |
Islands
Islands 100,000 km2 (39,000 sq mi) and greater
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This section of the list might not be complete, but covers almost all of the islands in the world over 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi). The area of some Antarctic islands is uncertain.
See also
- Lake island
- List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
- List of countries and dependencies by area
- List of islands (by continent and country)
- List of islands by highest point
- List of islands by name
- List of islands by population
- List of islands by population density
- List of countries by largest island
Notes
- ↑ Antarctica is a special case; if its ice is considered not as land, but as water, it is not a single land mass, but several land areas of much smaller area, since the ice-bedrock boundary is below sea level in many regions of the continent. If its ice cover were to be lifted, some rock that is currently below sea level would rise as the weight of the ice would be removed,[1] although this would in part be counteracted, and in some areas of the continent overtaken, by eustatic rises in sea level.[2]
- ↑ Australia is more than three times the size of Greenland, the largest island. Australia is sometimes dubbed "The Island Continent" or "Earth’s largest island but smallest continent".[3]
- ↑ It is thought that beneath the ice sheet Greenland may be three separate islands.[5] Whether the places where the ice-bedrock boundary reaches below the sea level are land or sea is a matter of definition. The usual definition is that Greenland is one major island.
- ↑ The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus claims and controls one third of the island of Cyprus, although this is not recognised by any country except Turkey.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A dispute exists between the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. The territory is described as "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)" by the United Nations.
Footnotes
- ↑ Global warming and the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Michael Oppenheimer, 1998 (see map of Antarctica showing regions where bedrock is below sea level)
- ↑ Jonathan L. Bamber; River; Vermeersen; LeBrocq (May 2009). “Reassessment of the Potential Sea-Level Rise from a Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet”. Science 324 (59295): 901–903. doi:10.1126/science.1169335. PMID 19443778 . 3 June 2013閲覧..
- ↑ “Australia in Brief - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade”. Dfat.gov.au. . 2010閲覧.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 “Islands By Land Area”. Islands.unep.ch. . 2010閲覧.
- ↑ "Greenland's huge ice sheet is melting far faster than scientists expected", San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2006.
- ↑ “Joshua Calder's World Island Info - Continent or Island?”. Worldislandinfo.com. . 2016閲覧.
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.23 7.24 7.25 7.26 7.27 7.28 7.29 7.30 7.31 7.32 7.33 7.34 7.35 7.36 7.37 7.38 7.39 7.40 7.41 7.42 7.43 7.44 7.45 7.46 “Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands”. Atlas.nrcan.gc.ca (2009年8月12日). 2013年1月22日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。. 2010閲覧.
- ↑ Nolan, Professor William. “Geography of Ireland”. Government of Ireland. . 2009閲覧.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 “Joshua Calder's World Island Info - Largest Islands of the World”. Worldislandinfo.com. . 2016閲覧.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 “Statistisk årbok 2009: Geografisk oversikt” (ノルウェー語). Ssb.no. . 2010閲覧.
- ↑ Monthly Bulletin of Interior Statistics 2011.12 , Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interior, R.O.C.
- ↑ Dunham, Mike (2010年7月31日). “Turns out Kodiak is largest U.S. island, depending on viewpoint”. Anchorage Daily News. オリジナルの2010年8月2日時点によるアーカイブ。 . August 1, 2010閲覧.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 “Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen - Střrste řer” (2003年9月23日). . 2010閲覧.
- ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 “Joshua Calder's World Island Info - Largest Islands of the World by Region”. Worldislandinfo.com. . 2016閲覧.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Öar i Sverige Islands in Sweden
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 “Joshua Calder's World Island Info - Largest Lake Islands of the World”. Worldislandinfo.com. . 2016閲覧.
- ↑ World Heritage Places - Fraser Island
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 “Joshua Calder's World Island Info - Largest Islands of Selected Countries”. Worldislandinfo.com. . 2016閲覧.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 “Suomen suurimmat saaret”. Kauko Huotari. 2010年4月12日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。. 2010閲覧.
- ↑ “Svalbard Statistics 2005 (PDF)” (ノルウェー語). . 2010閲覧.
References
- “Islands of Greenland”. Gazetteer of Greenland. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2005年8月). 2011年6月15日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。 Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー:引数 accessdate は必須です。
- “Islands by Land Area”. Island Directory Tables. United Nations Environment Programme (1998年2月18日). Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー:引数 accessdate は必須です。
- “The Atlas of Canada”. Natural Resources Canada (2015年6月4日). Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー:引数 accessdate は必須です。
- “World Island Information”. Joshua Calder (2010年). Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー:引数 accessdate は必須です。