Talk:List of islands by area

Malta

Need to add Malta — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.183.73.226 (talk) 20:28, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Great Karimun

This island clearly has the wrong area on this list. Visually, it is much smaller than the neighboring islands that are on this list, but are located much lower in it. For example Bintan. It is 294 on the list (Karimun is 254), but it has a much larger size on the Google Maps. In this case, it is located quite close, which allows you to reject distortion. Tregnum (talk) 11:05, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

I removed it. Just by comparing on Google Maps you can see it is less then half the size of Singapore, and Singapore is nowhere close to big enough to make the list. TurkeyCookTime (talk) 03:09, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

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 an consensus about 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

Is anyone sure that Bear Island (Antarctica) actually exists? The coordinates on the Bear Island article correspond to empty ocean, and the article also says it is 1.9km west of Stonington Island - which also doesn't seem to exist. TurkeyCookTime (talk) 16:03, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Okay, I found Stonington Island, which is a tiny island off the coast of Antarctica, but west of it is just empty ocean. I'm removing Bear Island from the list. TurkeyCookTime (talk) 16:16, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

More Islands?

There are a few Antarctic islands that aren't on the list but seem like they should be. I couldn't find the areas documented so I used Google My Maps to measure them myself (so they might not be very accurate).

These islands are:

Rothschild Island - 3,338 km^2

Smyley Island - 3,287 km^2

Fletcher Island - 1,580 km^2

Can anyone find documented areas of these islands? If not, should they still be added? TurkeyCookTime (talk) 16:57, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Go ahead and add them, just remember to insert a note stating that these are rough measurements. 120.16.31.155 (talk) 23:57, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Hawaii Island

This island is not included! It is larger than Puerto Rico at >4000 sq.mi. 66.91.192.2 (talk) 20:55, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Area of Mainland Antarctica

According to Collins World Atlas, the total land area of Mainland Antarctica (excluding ice shelves) is 12,093,000 sq km, which is significantly smaller than the figure described in the article. 203.174.173.6 (talk) 06:45, 23 February 2023 (UTC)