Island
an island is a land mass, which is surrounded by water completely, but not when continent applies. Also by humans artificially providedBuildings (bridges, Fahrdämme) do not change the island characteristic, if nature provided up to then for the complete water environment.Sylt is thus still an island. The Peloponnes is accordingly a peninsula - although a channel the land tightness and connectionto the Attika cuts through.
Some countries still extended this definition. So may be spoken in Canada only then of an island, if on a piece country a tree grows. This definition is there necessary, since only on islands are builtmay.
One differentiates two kinds regarding the situation from islands:
- Oceanic islands, which often rise as a component of midocean backs, freely from the continent from the sea, usually volcanos or atolls (Koralleninseln)
- continental islands, which rest on the continental shelf.
A furtherconceivable distinction would be according to the kind of waters in:
- High sea-island, like e.g. Helgoland and/or. Sea or sea island
- lake island
- Flussinsel
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Large islands
| Island | situation | of surface in km ² | alternative source | |
| 1. | Greenland | North Atlantic | 2.175.597 | - |
| 2. | New Guinea | southwest Pacific | 786,000 | 771,900 |
| 3. | Borneo | west Pacific | 743,107 | 746,951 |
| 4. | Madagascar | Indian ocean | 587,042 | 586,500 |
| 5. | Baffin island | North Atlantic | 476.068 | 507.451 |
| 6. | Sumatra | of northeast Indian ocean | 473,605 | 425,000 |
| 7. | Honshū | Japanese sea (east sea)/Pacific | 230,316 | 227,414 |
| 8. | Great Britain | in the northwest of Europe | 229,883 | 216,777 |
| 9. | Ellesmere island | arctic ocean | 212,688 | 196,236 |
| 10. | Victoria island | arctic ocean | 212,199 | 217,290 |
| 11. | Sulawesi (fr. Celebes) | west Pacific | 189.034 | - |
| 12. | South island of New Zealand | south Pacific | 150,461 | 153,947 |
| 13. | Java | Indian ocean | 126,884 | 134.703/118.000 |
| 14. | North island of New Zealand | south Pacific | 114,688 | - |
| 15. | Cuba | Caribbean sea | 114,525 | 105.007/110.861 |
| Island | situation | of surface in km ² | |
| 1. | Rügen | Baltic Sea | 930 |
| 2. | Usedom | Baltic Sea | 445 (373) |
| 3. | Fehmarn | Baltic Sea | 185 |
| 4. | Sylt | North Sea | 99 |
| 5. | Föhr | North Sea | 83 |
| 6. | North beach | North Sea | 50 |
| 7. | Pellworm | North Sea | 37 |
| 8. | Poel | Baltic Sea | 34 |
| 9. | Borkum | North Sea | 31 |
| 10. | Norderney | North Sea | 26 |
| 11. | Amrum | North Sea | 20 |
geoscientifically interesting islands in the Wikipedia
used topics
- largest island
- swimming island
- prison island
- treasure island
- To island chain
- list of the islands
- list of the island states
- list of British islands
- list of Danish islands
- list of German islands
- list of Greek islands
- list of Netherlands islands
- list of Polish islands
- list of Russian islands
- list of divided islands
see also
- island (old Mark), municipalityin the district Stendal in Saxonia-Anhalt
- commission island, borough of the city Kehl on the Rhine
- island publishing house, island library
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